- make a Perl module (CPAN)

- replace lynx -dump with  CTAN::LWP::http and selfwritten descambler

- do not collect the result first but (optionally) print it in time
  to give a better response on low connections.

- caching the results in an external SQL database

- Adding $confdir/config for all those pathnames

- extended options of the ripe whoisd

- introduce a comprehensive documentation

- whois.ripe.net and option -k considered dangerous
