Re: Notice to Mariners: loss of navigational aids ("whois consultations")

Dave Crocker <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Sep 2001 14:46:52 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.whois
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Oh?  You are disagreeing with the examples that Randy provided at the IETF 
meeting?

d/

ps.  hint:  the IETF is about standards for global interoperability, not 
isolated utility.


At 09:12 AM 9/5/2001, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
>At 08:44 -0700 5/9/01, Dave Crocker wrote:
>>You did an excellent job, at the last IETF meeting, of showing that Whois 
>>is already broken, FOR ITS INTENDED OPERATIONAL FUNCTIONS.
>
>Sorry to differ but...
>
>whois.ripe.net, whois.apnic.net and whois.arin.net seem to be doing quite 
>well for their intended purposes.

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