Re: IETF-51 WhoisFix BoF Announcement

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:35:40PM +0200, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote:
> I remember that, eons ago, we used it in-house as a source to look
> up digitized pictures of colleges and in the institute next door
> they used it to find empty conference rooms.  We have things as
> ldap and friends to do these.

LDAP is something that we have been playing with for a while.  An example 
of an ldap service that accesses domain registration data is at:
  http://www.ldap.research.netsol.com

An internet draft that describes this is at:
 http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-newton-ldap-whois-00.txt

We have done some thinking on how to handle RIR data and think it may
be possible to make it work. RIR data is a bit more complex in dealing with 
allocation and allocations within an allocation types of searches.

Regards,
Mark

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Mark Kosters             [email protected]       Verisign Applied Research