Re: IETF-51 WhoisFix BoF Announcement

["Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>]

Eric,

Correct me if my recollection is wrong, but the last go-round of this was
severely bogged down by a focus on the protocol specified in RFC 954 when in
fact the discussion was more suited to the concepts and facilities presented
in 1580 (starting on page 38). Is it the intent to focus on the latter than
the former this time around?

While I couldn't agree more that changes are due, it strikes me that
updating 954 may prove to be next to impossible because of the hidden
install base...

Sorry if this is off-topic for this list - I won't be in London to speak my
piece...

-rwr

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine" <brunner@nic-naa.net>
To: <ietf-provreg@cafax.se>; <ietf-whois@imc.org>
Cc: <brunner@nic-naa.net>; <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:50 PM
Subject: IETF-51 WhoisFix BoF Announcement


>
> FYI,
>
> The agenda will be posted on the IETF-51 web site in a day or so.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
> WHOISFix BoF co-chair
>
> ANNOUNCEMENT
> ------------
> Yet another attempt will be made to create a working group providing
> minimal enhancements to the WHOIS (port 43) service.
>
> This BOF will review a proposed charter and a proposed specification
> for enhancements. This round of effort will be marked by extremely
> narrow focus and extremely tight management to maintain that focus.
>
> The technical goals for the enhancement effort will be to:
> specify a common, structured query format,
> specify a means for server query redirection,
> specify server-server queries, and
> specify standardized whois structured response formats.
>
> Character set and data protection (privacy) issues are included in the
query
> and response format goals.