Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

[jcurran at arin.net (John Curran)]

On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Leigh Porter wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy at 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