RE: WHOIS source?

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

> Andrew Brown
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 2:43 PM
>
> > Can someone point me to the source for a whois server... I
don't know
> > why, but I haven't been able to find any sources....
>
> it seems to me that in the complete and utter absence of a
formal
> protocol, a sample implementation might something like:

RFC812