[27467] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois broke again?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Sun Feb 20 23:35:24 2000
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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 20:28:31 -0500
From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
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Rodney Joffe wrote:
> On the other hand, I believe that there *is* an overwhelming public
> interest issue as far as typical whois type data is concerned. The
> ability to reach responsible parties during network events like DOS
> attacks, bogus announcements, domain failures, spam runs, etc. are
> necessary.
>...
> So, a fundamental decision has to be made:
>
> Is it important for parties that control DNS data (domain names and
> address space) that are connected to "the network" to be identifiable to
> the community at large, and reachable?
It is important.
> If so, a replacement rfc needs to be developed.
A replacement for what?
Don't we already have plenty of documents describing the protocols?
Are you referring to a BCP?
WSimpson@UMich.edu
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