On Sat, Aug 29, 2026 at 12:04 AM borg--- via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Actually, I think RIRs could actually run proxy themselfs, and generate WHOIS reply based on RDAP data. Why not?
Your telephone landline (if you still have one) or VoIP to POTS adapter usually supports rotary dialing. It's been nearly half a century since anyone made a rotary phone but the POTS equipment still supports rotary dialing. Why? Because backward compatibility is valuable. There's a disadvantage to building a POTS adapter which is less than 100% backward compatible. And the cost to implement a user-interface skin atop modern signaling which implements rotary dialing is utterly trivial. So I agree with you: why shouldn't the RIR use an RDAP server that also provides a whois-compatible user interface skin? And do so indefinitely? Regards, Bill Herrin -- For hire. https://bill.herrin.us/resume/