[177189] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois server features
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rubens Kuhl)
Wed Jan 7 14:55:56 2015
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 17:55:48 -0200
From: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com>
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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>
> > So, you=E2=80=99re not running into a poorly-documented mystery, you=E2=
=80=99ve run
> afoul of one of the rotten armpits of the shub-Internet.
> >
>
> So there's no consensus between NICs for the information they should
> have in whois and what search mechanisms they should provide? I guess
> what you're saying is that whois is just a protocol definition and
> nothing else?
>
Might not even qualify for "protocol definition", and RFC 3912 ACKs this:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3912
Rubens
