Re: Heads-up: Another whois change

["Dana Hudes" <dhudes () panix com>]

This should move to the ietf-whois-ext () imc org list
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy () knowledge com>
To: <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: Heads-up: Another whois change


> > The IETF seem to have no authority over Network Solutions and the competing
> registrars.
> > ICANN does but doesn't do anything.
>
> Maybe by lobbying ICANN to agree in principle to require registrars to
> provide an open-standard based interface to domain registry information. FTP
> would be a good start :)
>
> This is getting off-topic... private replies invited.
>
> Peter