[27640] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Heads-up: Another whois change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dana Hudes)
Thu Mar 2 07:50:31 2000
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From: "Dana Hudes" <dhudes@panix.com>
To: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowledge.com>,
"Kevin Day" <toasty@dragondata.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 07:47:55 -0500
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There was some discussion and effort but it seems to have died.
I have a vested interest of sorts as author/maintainer of the CPAN =
Net::Whois module
which keeps breaking. I can't make progress forward because every time I =
fix
.com et al it gets broken again. I would write an RFC but who will make =
Network Solutions obey?
And the word from their representative is that the competing registrars =
have an interest in keeping
things different.
We have a WG set up. http://www.imc.org/ietf-whois-ext/ . Nothing =
happening.
A draft by falstrom of the referral extension is in place but pretty =
dead.
The IETF seem to have no authority over Network Solutions and the =
competing registrars.
ICANN does but doesn't do anything.
----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowledge.com>
To: "Kevin Day" <toasty@dragondata.com>; <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 4:06 AM
Subject: Re: Heads-up: Another whois change
>=20
> > NSI seems to have modified their WHOIS response format again, now
> including
> > full information about each contact. Again, this broke one of my =
scripts
> > since nothing is where it's supposed to be. Didn't they promise =
before to
> > notify people before they did this again?
>=20
> Is there, should there be or who is working on a >standard< format for =
whois
> queries against domain registries ?
>=20
> Peter
>=20
>=20
