Re: [weirds] Scope and guiding principles (was Re: I-D Action: draft-hollenbeck-dnrd-ap-query-00.txt)

"John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Fri, 04 May 2012 17:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [weirds] Scope and guiding principles (was Re: I-D Action: draft-hollenbeck-dnrd-ap-query-00.txt)
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>These make sense from a specification standpoint.  Where we need to be careful is that if such
>limitations end up being complete (i.e., no extensions to the current query model are ever
>implemented), then it still has to have been worthwhile to both clients and servers.

If it provides what the current WHOIS is supposed to provide, but with
consistent query syntax and machine parsable results, that would be
plenty worthwhile.

R's,
John