Re: whois in the host location

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

Salvatore,

This list is for the discussion of the whois protocol, defined in rfc954,
and related protocols such as rwhois, defined in rfc2167, for "Birds of
a Feather" sessions held at IETF-51, and IETF-49. There is another whois
list as well, with a slightly different focus.

Because the actual whois protocol can be written as (thanks to Rick Wesson)
       C: [::printable::]\r\n
       S: .*\r\n <socket close>
it is unlikely that any "whitepaper or tutorial" exist, though the subject
is mentioned in survey texts.

When I worked for Nokia Research I proposed to a co-worker that locality
data could be used, both for network analysis (work along this line has been
done at CAIDA), and for "local" services. There was a BoF on the subject at
IETF-48, some overlap with the mobile ad-hoc working group (manet), and a
deep connection with ntp.

If your interests are along the lines of this, then this mailing list isn't
what you are looking for. Simply adding geo-data to a whois-like database was
done in the uucp mapping project.

Eric
co-chair, WhoisFix BoF, IETF-51