[dbwg] WHOIS Change Announcement

[ginny listman]

Based on feedback from the most recent DBWG meeting at ARIN XI, ARIN
staff will make minor modifications to the way organization data is
displayed in WHOIS. These changes will be released on 16-Jul-2003.

For organizations with Rwhois servers, ARIN will append an Rwhois
server information field to the organization information displayed in
whois. The whois display will place the label "ReferralServer:" and
its URL value. 

Acceptable values are:

ReferralServer: rwhois://192.0.2.11:4321/
ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.arin.net:4321/
ReferralServer: rwhois.example.net:4321
ReferralServer: rwhois://whois.example.com:43/ 

Invalid values include:

ReferralServer: rwhois.arin.net
ReferralServer: http://whois.example.net:80/


Ginny Listman 
Director of Engineering 
ARIN