If you really want to run your own whois server for your IP allocations,
RIPE WHOIS Server is the first that comes to mind:
http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/
or
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ripewhois/
I believe this is the NSI version you were referring to:
http://www.nw.com/nw/WWW/software/whois.html
These are the only two that I personally know about.
> Perhaps I am being misunderstood (or perhaps I'm just completely
> stupid)... We are looking to serve authoritative whois records. We
> will also be using our rwhois server for our IP blocks which will be
> fully redelegated from ARIN (today they are simply reassigned, and ARIN
> maintains the records).
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