On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 5:34 AM Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: > > I may have missed something, but why does Section 5 advocate for use > > of HTTPS to fetch geofeed files in the second paragraph, and then FTP > > in the seventh? > > the former is for getting one file through direct reference. the latter > is bulk transfer of the totality of the repository's data through bulk > query. >
Ah, thanks, I did miss that subtlety. I suggest something like this to spell it out for people like me: OLD: To minimize the load on RIR whois [RFC3912 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3912>] services, use of the RIR's FTP [RFC0959 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc0959>] services SHOULD be the preferred access. This also provides bulk access instead of fetching by brute force search through the IP space. NEW: To minimize the load on RIR whois [RFC3912 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3912>] services, use of the RIR's FTP [RFC0959 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc0959>] services SHOULD be the preferred access for retrieval of the entire repository. This provides bulk access instead of fetching by brute force search through the IP space. -MSK
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