[Rt4-whois] Recommendation 17

[Omar Kaminski]

Technically speaking is there any need of a new Whois pattern? Or it's
a matter of Whois database (and interface) stardardization?

Omar


2012/4/25 Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz at iks-jena.de>:
> Thank you for expanding and reformulating the recommendation 17.
>
> To my honest surprise the currenct form of this recommendation does not
> match the original intend anymore. So let me rephrase the main issues again:
>
> The AOC requires an "unrestriced and unlimited access to complete data for
> everybody". The current implementations violate this requirement in three
> ways:
>  a) Most interfaces are rate limited or otherwise restriced
>  b) Many interfaces does not offer the full set of information
>  c) The interfaces are hard to find and often difficult to use
>
> So the recommendation 17 is simply saying: "Please build or extend an
> interface which is:
>  - Web based for "easy access for everybody" (to solve c)
>  - Multilingual for the same reason
>  - Follows the WHOIS server references downtree starting at whois.iana.org
>   to find any WHOIS server (not just a gTLD) and the necessary information
>   (to solve c and overcome the thin/thick WHOIS discussion at all)
>  - By insisting on ICANN as an operator of this service access to the WHOIS
>   servers of the various partes can be made unrestricted (to solve a)
>   as well as complete (to solve b)
>
> This is quite different from the current proposal to do some cosmetic
> changes on the Internic website ... Sorry.
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