At the risk of sounding entirely un-politically correct, is it possible to query whois.nic.ad.jp for actual contact information, vs. just company name? Color me frustrated, but, even with the "/e" extension, nic.ad.jp has been nearly useless for many moons. This strikes me as somewhat irresponsible. : Which JPNIC block? The original JPNIC delegation was from SRI, : predating NSI, APNIC and ARIN. And no, there is no standard for : whois data that is published, let alone publishing at all. : > : > Ah, now I see the issue. That's insanely sparse on the : > information. Since I'm really quite ignorant in the area, who gives JPNIC : > the power to assign netblocks? APNIC I presume, after checking with : > APNIC's whois database. I guess there's no policy for standards and the : > like. How do things like standards get enforced amongst registry entities : > outside the US? : > : > -- : > Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net : > Sr. Security Specialist for <Big company not to be named>. : > : > On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Jason Slagle wrote: : > : > > Yes, but even geektools falls flat on it's face for lets say : > > 210.251.128.255. : > > : > > :sigh: I really wish we could get a common format for these. : > > : > > I really like the ripe style databases.