On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM Oliver Gasser <oliver= [email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 12/3/25 10:03 PM, David Farmer wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 14:51 Randy Bush <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > hi paul, > > > > > To minimize the load on RIRs' WHOIS [RFC3912] services, > the > > > RIR's FTP [RFC0959] services SHOULD be used for > large-scale > > > access to gather > > > > > > I can't really ignore the fact that unsigned data is urged to be > > > transfered in the clear possibly (likely?) without authentication. > > > > yup. but, as was discussed in LC, that is traditionally how the RIRs > > provided bulk access. as you say, they are heading for rdap, which > is > > over https. > > > > > > ARIN announced early this year that it has retired the use of the FTP > > protocol. > > > > https://www.arin.net/announcements/20250331/ <https://www.arin.net/ > > announcements/20250331/> > > We will clarify that this refers to Bulk WHOIS access which used to be > FTP only, but now Bulk WHOIS access via HTTPS is supported by all RIRs. > > Note that Bulk WHOIS over HTTPS is different than RDAP. > I see the update you made to the first references to FTP in version 9. However, there is a second reference to FTP that is directly related to ARIN; "therefore, when fetching from ARIN via FTP [RFC0959]..." Thanks -- =============================================== David Farmer Email:[email protected] Networking & Telecommunication Services Office of Information Technology University of Minnesota 2218 University Ave SE Phone: 612-626-0815 Minneapolis, MN 55414-3029 Cell: 612-812-9952 ===============================================
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