-----Original Message----- From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 4:05 AM Adam Maloney via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Would it not need security updates? Testing the updates before (so maybe a separate test environment), and testing after?
However infrequent, someone needs to be paid to do those things. Which costs money.
Hi Adam,
Any plausible WHOIS retirement schedule has a period of time in which results are produced for both WHOIS and RDAP, right? ARIN proposed about 3 years IIRC.
<snip the rest of William's very well thought out response> My questions were meant to be rhetorical, not to stake out a position. I was just pointing out that the assertion "You set it up once and forget it, probably forever" was a bit pie-in-the-sky (for any solution). </delurk> Adam