On 12/3/25 11:54 PM, David Farmer wrote:
On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM Oliver Gasser
<[email protected] <mailto:[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]>
> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
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> 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/> <https://www.arin.net/
<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
Fixed now in revision -10 of the I-D.
Cheers,
Oliver
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