Re: IETF-51 WhoisFix BoF Announcement

Mark and all,

Mark Kosters wrote:

> 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

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>
> 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
>
> --
>
> Mark Kosters             [email protected]       Verisign Applied Research

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