Re: Whois software run by Lacnic and BR?

[Frederico A C Neves <fneves () registro br>]

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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