Re: NZ whois server

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Don Stokes wrote:

Joe Abley wrote:

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But the conclusion that it refers to a whois server returning data in the same manner as whois.ripe.net is hardly difficult to reach.

Yes, that is the "obvious" interpretation. But the interpretation I prefered to go with, as being more useful to the direct community of interest was to look at what the RIPE format meant in actual practical terms, ie

The direct community of interest (based on the hits I see on my whois servers) are not people who want to register domains under .NZ; they are people trying to look up domain contact addresses from elsewhere.

In my view, blithely using RIPE-049 without considering the intent of the RIPE formats would have been just as non-compliant and less useful than doing what I suggested.

<shrug>

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Is that an apology, Don? :)

Absolutely not. I was asked to make a call and I made one. I haven't seen anything new on the subject that makes me want to change my mind.

<shrug>

I'm sure that if there was convincing evidence that your interpretation is better than mine that can be accommodated.

<shrug>

BTW: Joe, wasn't it you who once wrote to isocnz-l:

| RIPE and APNIC aren't actually name service organisations; they're | regional registries for ASN and IP number allocations. You might | use CRSNIC, NSI, Nominet, etc if you're looking for examples of | registries' and registrars' use of whois.

during the consultation process for the ISOCNZ draft? None of the above use anything even vaguely resembling RIPE-049.

It was. But I'm not sure what your point is here, Don. RIPE defined the format of the replies to their whois server; I was trying to correct a specific mis-wording in John's policy. Joe --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog