[Ietf-not43] From answer to domain

[David Blacka]

On Wednesday 15 October 2003 02:25 pm, Chris Ambler wrote:

> The goal here is to create a WHOIS interchange format. Period. At
> Rick's urging, we're using dreg instead of something new, simply
> because they'd be, essentially, the same thing. The only difficulty
> here is in getting the data into a single transmission, which is
> made slightly challenging because of the normalization issue. But
> including the elements in the additional element should solve this.

Perhaps you said earlier, but interchanging between what and what?  I
only ask because if you want a format for exchanging entire WHOIS data
sets, you might want to look at the <iris:serialization> stuff
described in the iris-core document.  Otherwise, you are almost
describing a limited IRIS server using a different transport.  Not
that there is necessarily anything wrong with that.

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David Blacka    <davidb at verisignlabs.com> 
Sr. Engineer    Verisign Applied Research