Draft Agenda

[Joan Gargano <[e-mail]>]

Please let me know if there are any additions or changes that need to be made.

WNILS
Whois and Network Information Lookup Service
Agenda
November 1, 1993


I.	Approval of the Minutes

II.	Status of Whois++ Architecture
              Peter Deutsch

Several implementations are available for evaluation.  A relatively stable 
Internet Draft is required for interoperability testing.

II.	Status of the Distributed Whois++ model - Centroids
              Chris Weider

III.	Status of Whois++ Clients
              Jim Fullton

IV.	Status of Recommended Modifications to the Whois Protocol
              Joan Gargano

This document is available as an Internet Draft and has not been modified 
for 6 months.  Final submission as an informational item was delayed 
pending stablization of the architecture document.  It does not appear it will 
require further modification due to protocol development.   Discussion will 
focus on the final status of this paper.

V.	Discussion of Whois++ Implementations

              Currently available implementations:

Alan Emtage
Bunyip Information Systems
[phone]
java.cc.mcgill.ca port 6969
ftp://ftp.ucdavis.edu/dist/bunyip-whois++-1.0a.tar.Z 

DUA Interface using LDAP
Mark Priorwhois++ -> 
ftp://ftp.adelaide.edu.au/pub/whois/whois++beta.tar.Z

PERL and dbm
Rickard Schoultz <[e-mail]>
SUNET/KTH				[phone]   (voice)
S-100 44 Stockholm (SWEDEN)	    	[phone]    (fax)
ftp://othello.admin.kth.se/pub/schoultz/kth-whois++-1.1a.tar.Z

There is now support for centroids and almost all centroid commands.
I have set up an experimental server tree with this server which you can
try out. It looks like:

sunic.sunet.se:7070   --->  kth.se:7070  ---> othello.admin.kth.se:43
                                        \
                                         ---> cyklop.nada.kth.se:7070


Running Servers Only

whois.eunet.fi:6969
Petri Helenius <[e-mail]>


V.	Update of Goals and Milestones

The following goals need revision.

5/15/93	Submit the Whois and Network Information Lookup Service 
Recommendations document to the IESG as an Informational 
document.

6/11/93	Submit the WHOIS++ protocol and index service documents to 
the IESG as an Internet Draft.

6/11/93	Submit the revised WHOIS++ protocol and index service 
documents to the IESG as Draft Standards.


Joan Gargano
Distributed Computing Analysis and Support
Information Technology - University of California, Davis
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