On 2013-05-23, at 16:56, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > It looks you're right and everyone does have the same data in > historical format. Looks like RIPE has everything compiled into what > is current. So if a block hasn't changed for 10 years, it'll be in the > RIPE dataset vs with the others, I'd have to write something to > overlay the data through out time to get current?
Could be. You've looked at this more than I have, now -- I was mainly trying to point out that bulk data retrieval is a possible option so you could avoid whois-hammering :-) Joe