[db-wg] Suggestion for a way to retrieve filtered objects

> Do you need to specify any special options to whois to get the auth:
> lines from the maintainer object?  We have a maintainer object where
> I'm pretty sure that all the auth: lines are of PGP- style, but whois
> is still not displaying those lines.  Trying to use
> 
>   https://apps.db.ripe.net/webupdates/search.html
> 
> it asks me for "password".  What password?!?  No, I have not used
> webupdates before, and have no particular desire to start using it
> now.  Is there no way around this?
> 
> I really, Really, dislike this change in behaviour, since we are now
> effectively cut off from updating our maintainer object -- we keep no
> local copy of the object, and want to use the one stored in the RIPE
> database as the authoritative data source.  Now we can't do that.
> Argh!

what he said

sigh

randy