To:
George Belotsky <george@register.com>
cc:
ietf-provreg@cafax.se, ietf-whois@imc.org
From:
Shane Kerr <shane@ripe.net>
Date:
Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:12:24 +0100 (CET)
In-Reply-To:
<20010129103932.A735@register.com>
Sender:
owner-ietf-provreg@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: Merging RRP and Whois
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, George Belotsky wrote: > The assumption of a centralized store would be made at the > protocol level. The underlying implementation could well > be distributed. Assuming a distributed database at the > protocol level would complicate the client. Not necessarily. HTTP+HTML implements a distributed database with an extremely simple client (until you decide to render the HTML, I suppose) - not that it can't be done wrong (see "RWhois"). Shane