Apologies in advance if this is the wrong mailing list for this.

I noticed that the RIPE DB Query UI automatically deduplicates entries (i.e. multiple instances of an ASN in an AS-SET only appears once) through the webUI, however when queried through whois on any modem operating system the entry shows the raw data including the duplicates within it.

I'm a bit curious as to how this is done, and whether it's possible/planned to have the same functionality implemented in the WHOIS back-end that RIPE uses.