RE: Merging RRP and Whois

["Paul George" <pgeorge@saraf.com>]

Fair enough, thanks for the info Randy.  But I think my question is still
valid.  Does "whois" have a valid place in a generic regsitry/registrar
protocol?  Will ALL registration systems need "whois" functionality?  Okay,
if they don't need it, then they don't have to implement that part, but that
could be said for a million other little bits of functionality.....  Even
though I think of any right now, I'm sure someone else can. :-)

The fundemental question is :

Is 'whois' an integral part of a protocol that is intended to provide a
means for the registration of objects?

IMHO, I think it is not.  And I hope we can move forward on this soon.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 11:31 AM
To: Paul George
Cc: ietf-provreg@cafax.se; ietf-whois@imc.org
Subject: RE: Merging RRP and Whois


> Isn't whois simply a means of looking up Internet domain name
> information?

no it is not.  while the domain indu$try uses he protocol, many others do
too.  and they have just as legitimate claims to its functionality as the
domain exploition indu$try.

randy