Re: IETF-51 WhoisFix BoF Announcement

At 12:30 -0400 2/8/01, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
>  > Wouldn't this last item be dealing with how to register at the database?
>>
>>  At least for me, whois is a query protocol. How you get the data into
>>  the database is not directly connected to whois. Some people use web
>>  forms, others provide e-mail interaction, ...
>
>Not really actually. While the actual transfer is a back-end registry
>function, gaining registrars will query the whois of the losing registrar to
>capture the identity elements associated with the domain name in order to
>ensure that the transfer is being requested by an individual or entity with
>the apparent authority to undertake such a request. This is very much a
>standard whois query but also a unique application of whois. We do thousands
>per day...

Ok, but then you just have a multiple step process which includes a 
whois query as part of it. Maybe  i am missing more understanding of 
the whole process as you use it.

Joao

>-rwr


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