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Re: FW: [tld-admin-poc] Fwd: Re: .pro whois registry down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Thu Mar 10 06:28:15 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:28:08 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160310005427.3E818442EC61@rock.dv.isc.org>
Cc: tld-admin-poc <tld-admin-poc@afilias.info>, Joseph Yee <jyee@afilias.info>,
nanog@nanog.org, tld-tech-poc@afilias.info
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
>
> Additionally 'whois' is free form text. Whois doesn't include a
> AI to workout what this free form text means so, no, there isn't a
> actual referral for a whois application to use.
Yes, the whois data format is bullshit, but there are only a few simple
referral patterns in use, so in practice following referrals works OK.
> Additionally we should be publishing where the whois server for the
> tld is in the DNS.
> _whois._tcp.pro. srv 0 100 43 whois.afilias.net.
That would be nice, but in practice the requirement is a whois.nic.TLD
host rather than a SRV record. And we don't really need yet another way
to find whois servers - we already have more than enough.
Tony.
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