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

[Dave Crocker <dhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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