<Apologies for the duplicate email but want to keep you informed about changes occurring at ARIN. This particular upgrade may be of interest to those who are not subscribed to arin-announce.>
----- Forwarded message from Member Services <i...@arin.net> ----- From: Member Services <i...@arin.net> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:03:37 -0400 To: "arin-annou...@arin.net" <arin-annou...@arin.net> Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN's Whois-RWS Directory Service Available 17 July ARIN is pleased to announce that it will deploy its Whois-RWS service on 17 July 2010. We have corrected the issues that impacted the first release and are now able to bring you the following services that provide the general public with access to ARIN's registration data: * a RESTful Web Service (RWS) * a NICNAME/WHOIS port 43 service * a user-friendly web site (http://whois.arin.net) When using the Whois-RWS you will notice some differences in behavior for certain queries and corresponding result sets on the NICNAME/WHOIS port 43 service. The detailed documentation on these differences has been updated and is now available at: https://www.arin.net/resources/whoisrws/whois_diff.html ARIN?s Directory Service for registration data has used the NICNAME/WHOIS protocol since its inception. The limitations of the NICNAME/WHOIS protocol are well known and documented in RFC3912. Whois-RWS was created as an alternative to the ARIN Whois and will provide much richer functionality and capability to the community. ARIN continues to welcome community participation on the Whois-RWS mailing list, and we invite you to subscribe and share your experience and feedback about the new service: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-whoisrws Regards, Mark Kosters Chief Technical Officer American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) ----- End forwarded message -----
