[Ietf-not43] I-D: "Using DNS SRV records to locate whois servers"

[Leslie Daigle]

That is a proposal for a (non-authoritative) convention
for finding whois servers.

This WG is addressing the fact that whois, the protocol,
is insufficient for today's (domain) registry & (domain)
registrant needs.  As a part of proposing the overall
service, this WG is also looking at using the DNS as an
(authoritative) mechanism for finding servers participating
in that new service.

These are different things.

Leslie.

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> A new version of the Internet-Draft is available at
> <URL:http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~gw/draft-whois-srv.txt>.
> 
> I find it really interesting and I personally much prefer the use of
> the SRV rather than a new protocol with a referral mechanism.
> 
> Comments welcome, I suggest to Cc: the authors, I do not think they
> are on this mailing list.
> 
> 
> 
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