Actually, I think RIRs could actually run proxy themselfs, and generate WHOIS reply based on RDAP data. Why not? ---------- Original message ---------- From: Nick Hilliard via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@lists.nanog.org> Cc: John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Subject: Re: Whois using these ARIN services?? (fwd: Consultation on the Future of ARIN???s Directory Services) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:28:43 +0100 John R. Levine via NANOG wrote on 23/08/2026 23:22:
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.
Or even simpler: $ brew install rdap $ echo alias whois rdap >> ~/.bashrc $ . ~/.bashrc As a benefit of this, you'll even get parsable yaml (or json / xml if you want that instead), instead of the unstructured mess you get with whois. Nick _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/message/RRSXMQ5C...