Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

On 12/09/2011 17:17, Jeroen Massar wrote:

You are confusing RPSL (RFC2650) with WHOIS (RFC812,RFC954,RFC3912).

and you are confusing RPSL with RIPE-181 syntax. RIPE-181 and its grandchildren is a specification for whois information. RPSL is a routing policy language which uses ripe-181 format. The two are not the same.

Now, I agree on the part that ARIN should be doing RPSL, or even more, just start using the RIPE whois server for serving their data.

Now wait one moment until I bog you down with 20 years worth of legacy paranoia, "Not Invented Here" and useless history about why this shouldn't ever have happened... Nick