RFC 3912 on WHOIS Protocol Specification

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        RFC 3912

        Title:      WHOIS Protocol Specification
        Author(s):  L. Daigle
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       September 2004
        Mailbox:    leslie@verisignlabs.com
        Pages:      4
        Characters: 7770
        Obsoletes:  954, 812

        I-D Tag:    draft-daigle-rfc954bis-01.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3912.txt

This document updates the specification of the WHOIS protocol,
thereby obsoleting RFC 954.  The update is intended to remove the
material from RFC 954 that does not have to do with the on-the-wire
protocol, and is no longer applicable in today's Internet.  This
document does not attempt to change or update the protocol per se, or
document other uses of the protocol that have come into existence
since the publication of RFC 954.

This is now a Draft Standard Protocol.

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
for improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the
"Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the
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