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Rodney said what I was going to, but I'll add this http://www.opensrs.org/ If you can stomache that, then I have more of the same. For the record, I've tried to get you guy's attention with this stuff over two years ago. Y'all strongly told me it was non-operational. But, when systems start failing, and it becomes an operational issue, it's way too late. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > William Allen Simpson > Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 12:51 PM > To: Roeland M.J. Meyer > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: whois broke again? > > > > > "Roeland M.J. Meyer" wrote: > > Then I suggest that you do. I wouldn't sign the NDA, but you might. > > > What NDA? It's draft-hollenbeck-rrp-01.txt. > > But this is irrelevant to the whois discussion. > > > > With SRS, this is no longer possible as the whois data is already > > distributed among NSI's channel market, the Registrars. Each > are independent > > entities. The only real target you have to fire at is the ICANN. GFL ... > > they're broke. > > I think we must be talking at cross purposes. The domain whois data is > located in whois servers, maintained by the NSI registry. It is > updated by registrars. > > The NSI registry whois seems to be falling down and cannot get up. > We need a good system of distributed whois servers, just as we have > a robust system of distributed DNS servers. > > We've talked about this before. Rather than complaining about NSI, > folk need to get off their duffs and make it happen. > > I don't have the kind of bandwidth that we should have at the whois > servers, so I cannnot offer space. All I can do is chearlead (and > write code). > > Are we lacking an incremental distribution protocol for whois? > > What about rwhois? (RFC-2167 Informational) > > What about whois++? (RFC-1913 & 1914 Proposed Standards) > > [email protected] > Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32 >
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