Re: Whois using these ARIN services?? (fwd: Consultation on the Future of ARIN???s Directory Services)

["John R. Levine via NANOG" <nanog () lists nanog org>]

> If they both reference the same underlying data maybe just leave rwhois
> there but make it intentionally slower over time...

That seems awfully passive aggressive.  For domains, ICANN set a timeline 
and after a little bit of grumbling, we adapted.  I did it, it wasn't 
hard.  While I was at it I switched the IP and ASN lookups to RDAP too.

> If they somehow don't reference the same underlying data, well, fix that
> first by maybe just making rwhois a proxy to rdap?

It occurs to me that if people REALLY REALLY want WHOIS, it would not be 
terribly hard to write a proxy that puts a WHOIS front end on RDAP 
servers.

Here's one that goes the other way:

https://github.com/redirect2me/rdap-proxy

R's,
John

> On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 2:51 PM John R. Levine via NANOG <
> nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
>
> > >       Hello John ,  Are you the RDAP Sales Person ,   Because every word
> > > you have spoken about (r)whois & the proponent product have been exactly in
> > > the vien of trying to Sell ...
> >
> > I get a 50% commission on every RDAP sale!  Wow!
> >
> > Too bad it's free.  But it really does work better than WHOIS.

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