[43574] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois syntax
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Fri Oct 19 09:46:39 2001
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:45:54 -0400
From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
To: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
Cc: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20011019094553.E92370@buffoon.automagic.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011019024228.040b0398@pop3.tellurian.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:56:34AM -0400, Robert Boyle wrote:
> There is no standard specified in the RFC for output, just for query
> language.
Is RFC954 a standard in any real sense? Seems to me that the RFC2026
designation for that document would be "Historic", although RFC954 is
old enough that it is not labelled with a maturity level.
The only consistent similarities I can find between all the deployed
production *IR/IRR/registry/registrar whois servers is (a) that they
all let you look stuff up, and (b) they all listen on 43/tcp.
Joe
