[64329] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whois software run by Lacnic and BR?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frederico A C Neves)
Mon Oct 20 15:15:24 2003
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:14:42 -0200
From: Frederico A C Neves <fneves@registro.br>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>, nanog@merit.edu
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Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>, nanog@merit.edu
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Hank,
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:55:18PM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> At 01:28 PM 20-10-03 -0200, Frederico A C Neves wrote:
>
> >Hank,
> >
> >These whois servers uses an output format "based" on RPSL with added
> >extensions for organizations and dns delegation status.
>
> Can you point me to documentation on the extensions? Any plan on RFCing?
>
No. There is no public documentation for this. There is an effort at
the IETF [1] trying to standardize the discovery, output format and
the query semantics. Some time in the future these servers will be
"CRISP" compliant.
>
> >The whois server at the .BR registry (also the NIR for Brazil) doesn't
> >provide country information because it's implicit as it only provide
> >information for Brazil.
>
> Implicit is fine for humans but for automated scripts, couldn't it be made
> to have country=BR for all your inetnum entries?
>
We'll look at this for our next server release,
> Thanks,
> Hank
>
Regards,
Frederico Neves
[1] http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/crisp-charter.html
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