[address-policy-wg] 2008-09 New Policy Proposal (ASPLAIN Format for the Registration of 4-byte ASNs)

Indeed. FOr some time now the RIRs have backed the joint whois  
project, which is operated by LACNIC.
http://lacnic.net/cgi-bin/lacnic/whois?lg=EN
or whois -h whois.lacnic.net

There is no format translation, you get the native thing from each of  
the registries (with a note for the source of the info at the beginning)

Why would you use any other whois server for IP/ASNs/RPSL?

Joao

On 20 Oct 2008, at 20:47, Garry Glendown wrote:

> Rob Evans wrote:
>>
>> I agree, both with your sentiment and the proposal, but the "more
>> easily remembered" tag is a bit more than irrelevant.  Whilst the
>> low-order 16 bits might not be memorable, it might be quite easy to
>> keep up with which registries have used which upper 16 bits for a
>> little while, so manual 'whois' queries can be directed to the
>> appropriate server.
>>
> Why would _YOU_ worry about memorizing which RIR to forward a query  
> to?
> I thought that's what we have computers & programs for ;)
>
> I also agree with the proposal; amongst other things, AS regex would  
> be
> a nightmare with different representation (except maybe automagically
> converting all 16 Bit AS to 0.x format)
>
> -garry
>