Re: IETF-51 WhoisFix BoF Announcement

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:47:19AM -0400, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
> 
> My point was not to criticize the DNSO effort but to point out that a) the
> applicability of their results will be of limited (but still useful value)
> to the Whois BoF effort and b) that discussing Whois in purely a domain
> context is just plain wrong unless the BoF consciously determines this
> limitation and reduces the scope accordingly. In other words, if the goal is
> to replace or augment 954, then let's say so, but be extremely clear that
> the range of applications based on 954 or not purely domain-specific. If on
> the other hand, the goal is to augment the functionality of domain-specific
> whois, then let's take a look at what is currently going on over port 43 and
> look to rfc 1580 for historical guidance....

Are you suggesting that there are multiple ways in which the BOF should
properly scope its work, such as:
  1) in reference to domains only
  2) domains, IP registries, etc.
  3) the most commonly known use(es) of whois (which is probably #2)
  4) as a general directory service.

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Andrew Newton
VeriSign Applied Research
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