Re: New Standard for Whois

On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 05:11:54PM +0100, Patrik Fältström wrote:
> At 12.39 -0500 01-01-22, George Belotsky wrote:
> >It would save a lot of duplicated effort if the Whois and RRP
> >protocols could be merged into a single standard.
> 
> Whois is a request/response protocol, and I don't see how such a 
> protocol can be used for RRP things.

I strongly agree with Patrick. One needs to separate the provisioning protocol
that is used by a small community of users from the generalized lookup protocol
that is available to a much larger community of users.  They serve different 
functions and hence should not be jointly encumbered by the different 
requirements that they individually may have.

Mark

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