IETF-51 WhoisFix BoF Announcement

[Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI,

The agenda will be posted on the IETF-51 web site in a day or so.

Thanks,
Eric
WHOISFix BoF co-chair

ANNOUNCEMENT
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Yet another attempt will be made to create a working group providing
minimal enhancements to the WHOIS (port 43) service.

This BOF will review a proposed charter and a proposed specification
for enhancements. This round of effort will be marked by extremely
narrow focus and extremely tight management to maintain that focus.

The technical goals for the enhancement effort will be to:
	specify a common, structured query format,
	specify a means for server query redirection,
	specify server-server queries, and
	specify standardized whois structured response formats.

Character set and data protection (privacy) issues are included in the query
and response format goals.