RISwhois was announced early december 2003 and presented in the january 2004 RIPE47 meeting. After that we didn't do any marketing (other than provide pointers on ris webpages) I just had a rough look at the access statistics (as logged to /var/log/local.log and archived in /var/log/ARCHIVE/local.log*.gz) and found it nice to see there's continued intereset for RISwhois from external users. Excluding any of the RIPE NCC and RIPE meeting addresses (193.0.[0-9].*) RISwhois had 2,325,338 connections[*] from 815 distinct hosts. Top 10 users: IP #connections 213.19.146.13 932354 145.89.193.200 478159 128.223.6.40 363763 207.172.7.46 345502 213.186.35.102 58583 212.126.218.123 45000 202.12.29.252 37448 210.25.133.26 21005 146.115.9.21 15348 212.126.218.122 14242 halfweg.ripe.net made 16150 connections, which I take should all be attributed to the CGI web interface on www.ris.ripe.net So although started from a perspective of improving TTM's IP<>AS mapping, it seems we did add something useful/interesting to the RIS service portfolio. -- Rene [*] like whois.ripe.net, riswhoisd can keep a connection open on user request, thus #connections is not necessarily equal to #queries answered.