raw minutes for RIPE35 DB-WG

At 20:31 17-5-00 , Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
>
>      Jake Khoun: I had a proposal: The behaviour of whois server could
>         be to search all sources, instead of only RIPE source, and, to
>         stop at the first match.
>
>      David Kessens: I think the main reason for current default behaviour was
>         to save computer resources. But I don't think that this is the
>         case anymore. We must be able to change the default behaviour. But
>         I don't like the idea of stopping at the first match.

This is a bad idea. Many people querying the RIPE NCC whois server
do so with the intention to obtain authoritative information from the
RIPE DB, and they get just that by default. Changing this behaviour would
result in a lot of confusion, irritation and serious user support load.
Given the fact that those who want to see data from all sources can
obtain that by just adding '-a' to their queries, such a change is totally
unnecessary.

Daniel