Re: whois broke again?

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Mon, 21 February 2000, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
> Yes there are interesting scoping issues.  Yes there are concerns wrt 
> evil people and tolerent applications. But this tactic clearly puts the
> onus on the people in control of the useage, not some centralized repository.

That sounds great, except the time when WHOIS is most important is when
the contact has totally screwed up their site and can't be reached by any
in-band network.  The nice thing about WHOIS is it tends to be out-of-band
with respect to most screw-ups.  The notable exception is when NSI screws-up.

The open question is why can RIPE get people to put good data in their database,
and NSI can't manage to keep the little correct data they have uncorrupted?