Re: Minutes from San Diego

"Niall O'Reilly" <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:06:34 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.whois
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Absolutely, IMNSHO; on both points.

At 07:24 17/01/01 -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
>actually, the whois port/protocol is used by all sorts of strange and arcane
>uses by all sorts of folk.  imiho, we do not have the prerogative to break
>their uses by a change to the base whois/43 protocol.
>
>this is not to say that some group of applications of the whois protocol
>could not agree to use it in a common way, essentially forming an overlay
>protocol.