I'm sure ARIN had good reasons to act as they did, either favourably to your interests, or not, it simply doesn't matter in the RIPE Region.
Sorry, the bulk access/harvesting prevention mechanisms have been in
Why would you be sure of that and why wouldn't it matter? It seems to me that all internet users have a stake in seeing that the services are reliable in all regions. place for a *very* long time. So, I guess the "suddenly" is more likely to be related to a change in your query pattern >and/or frequency, than to a change in the mechanisms. No, something has changed. They are claiming now there is some type of limit of 1000 queries per day. They have not blocked me in the past and the queries exceed that so something changed recently.
Well - although this is formally outside the topic of discussion - looking at your style, approach and choice of words, I am not overly surprised...
PS: and even I ( :-) ), or rather the lab where I am doing teaching
So you are saying Internet policy should be based on an evaluation of a person's choice of style? In other words if you are not part of a small clique then you don't matter? Many system admins act like this and they think their anti-spam systems trumps every other need and they don't care how much damage is done. There are many people like this involved in Internet governance and it is a big problem because they don't balance the needs of different parties. these are the people that often ridicule anyone who brings up issues or ideas that goers against their view of the world from their limited experience. this stuff, get blocked when we activate the triggers, for one reason or another. And that's how it is meant to work :-) Yes. Then there is supposed to be a policy in place to make a determination of what is allowed and what is not. the problem is that ARIN says it is allowed but RIPE says it is not. It is apparentky common to all the commercial whois providers that they use a distributed system of IP's so I don't have any special knowledge or information.
I believe many other players, including US-based ones, quite successfully use RIPE database contents for purposes similar to yours.
I was doing fine for 13 years until recently. Apparently the successful ones uses distributed IP's to avoid the blocking.
The RIPE database is maintained by the RIPE NCC, and to the best of my knowledge, the RIPE-specific (non-mirrored) contents of the database have been contributed, update by update, by the RIPE NCC and the RIPE community. I totally fail to see how e.g. my person object would have been 'bought and paid for by the US taxpayer'.
I believe the data is under the ultimate control of the US Government based on the contract between the US and IANA. Here is an EC news release about it: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1345&format=HTML&aged=0&language=en&guiLanguage=en If someone has the contract between RIPE and IANA I would like to see that as well. It is interesting that nobody can explain why RIPE has one policy and ARIN has a different one. Also, nobody seems to agree that the services like whois need to be standardized across the Internet. Most shockingly nobody wants to address the fact that the IP address blocking does not do what it is intended to do. Most comments just assume RIPE must be right and that I must have done something wrong ... my stye is wrong and I present myself incorrectly, etc, etc. This is what happens when someone outside the closed community tries to bring issues to the table. The speaker is attacked and the issues are glossed over. It is interesting because I am usually on the other side of the privacy argument and I have testified before the US Federal Trade Commission arguing for greater privacy protection. thank you