Currently, the RIPE whois server returns a result from a single-source (RIPE) search by default. One needs to pass a -a flag in order to obtain multiple-source returns. Because of this behaviour in conjunction with the necessity to allow a "defaulted" query to return inetnums, the architecture of the database is limited to a single source. For those organisations who may wish to run their own registry and participate in mirroring, this poses a considerable issue. I propose that the behaviour be modified so that the default would be to return a single-match first-hit from multiple-source search. That is, a query will return only one result but it will search through the source search order and return the first match it finds rather than simply stopping at the RIPEdb. -- /*====================[ Jake Khuon <khuon@GCtr.Net> ]======================+ | Network Statistics Engineer, NSM/Net-Eng /~ |2 () |\| ~|~ | @ |2 | | VOX: +1(408)328-4828 Fax: +1(408)328-4806 _/~ G L & B A L C E N T E R | +============[ 1154 East Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 ]============*/