RE: whois broke again?

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

Rodney said what I was going to, but I'll add this

http://www.opensrs.org/

If you can stomache that, then I have more of the same.

For the record, I've tried to get you guy's attention with this stuff over
two years ago. Y'all strongly told me it was non-operational. But, when
systems start failing, and it becomes an operational issue, it's way too
late.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> William Allen Simpson
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 12:51 PM
> To: Roeland M.J. Meyer
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: whois broke again?
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> "Roeland M.J. Meyer" wrote:
> > Then I suggest that you do. I wouldn't sign the NDA, but you might.
> What NDA?  It's draft-hollenbeck-rrp-01.txt.
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> But this is irrelevant to the whois discussion.
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> > With SRS, this is no longer possible as the whois data is already
> > distributed among NSI's channel market, the Registrars. Each
> are independent
> > entities. The only real target you have to fire at is the ICANN. GFL ...
> > they're broke.
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> I think we must be talking at cross purposes.  The domain whois data is
> located in whois servers, maintained by the NSI registry.  It is
> updated by registrars.
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> The NSI registry whois seems to be falling down and cannot get up.
> We need a good system of distributed whois servers, just as we have
> a robust system of distributed DNS servers.
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> We've talked about this before.  Rather than complaining about NSI,
> folk need to get off their duffs and make it happen.
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> I don't have the kind of bandwidth that we should have at the whois
> servers, so I cannnot offer space.  All I can do is chearlead (and
> write code).
>
> Are we lacking an incremental distribution protocol for whois?
>
> What about rwhois?  (RFC-2167 Informational)
>
> What about whois++? (RFC-1913 & 1914 Proposed Standards)
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> WSimpson () UMich edu
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