Re: New Standard for Whois

Patric:

The issues are actually not too difficult.  The idea is to develop a
new protocol, while maintaining backwards compatibility.

If the Whois stays on Port 43, backwards compatibility is maintained
by the following approach.

    1. Accept a connection.
    2. Parse the result.  If XML has been received, go to step 4.
    3. Not XML: as per existing Whois standard, return the result and
       close the connection.
    4. XML has been received: must be the new protocol.  Maintain the
       connection, and use the RRP.  Access will probably be
       restricted, and it may not be possible to modify objects.

George.


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.
> 
>     Patrik
> 
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