[177194] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois server features
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Wed Jan 7 15:48:48 2015
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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:48:22 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
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On 07/01/2015 20:07, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> Correct. It gets you a blob of text. Sometimes, a blob is just a blob.
> Other times, it contains what _appear_ to be key-value pairs, but are
> instead loosely-formatted text. Other times, it contains
> textually-represented key-value pairs that are programmatically
> generated from an actual database, and can thus be re-imported into
> another database. Depends what’s on the back end.
If only we could create a committee to fix whois...
Nick
