To:
Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>
cc:
George Belotsky <george@register.com>, Paul George <pgeorge@saraf.com>, ietf-provreg@cafax.se, ietf-whois@imc.org
From:
Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap@sidn.nl>
Date:
Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:13:56 +0100
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Subject:
Re: Merging RRP and Whois
I.e. if you do a protocol, and need overlapping functions, see if you
should not do _one_...
What goes on port 43 is a completely different story, and it should
stay that way.
What is going on on port 43 is indeed a complete different story.
Looking at the dicussion going on about what the function of whois
should or shouldn't be is an example about of this.
But I wonder how big the overlap is really. In the hollenbeck draft
the lookup function of whether an object exists is just a small
portion of the whole draft.
To exagerate a bit, since DNS is does also do lookups, why not add
a whois function to it?
jaap