RE: DNSO Announcement about WHOIS survey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 11:37 AM
> To: Paul M. Kane
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: DNSO Announcement about WHOIS survey 
> 
> 
> 
> 	... but a number of respondents have given suggestions for a
> 	domain name "availability" [mechanism]
> 
> Please see also the EPP check command. Note that unlike the whois:43
model,
> which provides unmediated service to 3rd parties, the epp:xx model
provides
> unmediated service to registrars.
> 
> <soapbox>
> Note that in the epp:xx model, and the current whois:43 models, queries
are
> specific to operator namespaces, and do not span multiple operator
namespaces.
> This is a design limitation in the case of epp:xx, consequent to its being
a
> client-server model. This limitation is not necessarily present in xrp:xx,
> which is not intentionally constrained to an client-server event model.
> </soapbox>

A client-server operational model does _not_ constrain queries to any
particular operator namespace.  If you really think it does, please explain
how the client-server DNS or rwhois protocols fail to span operator
namespaces.

<Scott/>