[dbwg] WHOIS Change Announcement

[Ed Allen Smith]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306161211130.1291-100000 at sokol.elan.net> (on 16
June 2003 12:17:57 -0700), william at elan.net (william at elan.net) wrote:
>Also for the example below can we change "rwhois://whois.example.net:43/" 
>to just "whois://whois.example.net:43/", that would be more appropriate.

Yes, this would be appropriate if the server running at whois.example.net on
port 43 is a whois server, not an rwhois server; the distinction needs to be
made clear, since theoretically someone could be running an rwhois server on
port 43. whois://whois.example.net/, without the '43', should probably be
OK, provided that the server is indeed a whois server running on port 43,
since one normally is not required to put the port on a URI if the port is
the standard one (IANA-assigned) for the protocol.

>On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 ginny at arin.net wrote:
>
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>

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