On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Leigh Porter wrote: > -----Original Message----- >> From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com] >> Sent: 16 September 2011 16:05 >> To: John Curran >> Cc: NANOG list >> Subject: Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ? >> >>> If you have a particular suggestion for changing whois, please >>> feel free to submit it. >> >> simple. don't. >> >> if you want to do something new, don't call it whois. >> >> randy >> > > Or call it whois and offer the service somewhere else.. Just not in a way > that breaks everything.
One approach would be the use of an option flag on the query to obtain the new hierarchical output No flag = no output change. Would that suffice? /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN