North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Whois software run by Lacnic and BR?
Hank, On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:55:18PM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > At 01:28 PM 20-10-03 -0200, Frederico A C Neves wrote: > > >Hank, > > > >These whois servers uses an output format "based" on RPSL with added > >extensions for organizations and dns delegation status. > > Can you point me to documentation on the extensions? Any plan on RFCing? > No. There is no public documentation for this. There is an effort at the IETF [1] trying to standardize the discovery, output format and the query semantics. Some time in the future these servers will be "CRISP" compliant. > > >The whois server at the .BR registry (also the NIR for Brazil) doesn't > >provide country information because it's implicit as it only provide > >information for Brazil. > > Implicit is fine for humans but for automated scripts, couldn't it be made > to have country=BR for all your inetnum entries? > We'll look at this for our next server release, > Thanks, > Hank > Regards, Frederico Neves [1] http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/crisp-charter.html [...]
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