On Sunday, June 21, 1998 1:18 AM, Chris Chaundy[SMTP:chris§connect.com.au] wrote:
@There have been several postings by (I would assume) US-based list members
@making the assertion that a domain is not official unless it appears in
@the InterNIC whois database!  Sigh...  If that was the case, then the great
@majority of domains in the world are not official.  Please remember that a
@large proportion of the Internet exists outside of the USA.  Just for a
@start, it does not appear that most if not all subdomains of delegated ccTLDs
@are listed.  With the lack of a widely-used whois referral mechanism, national
@and regional NICs are not tied back to the InterNIC in an automatic fashion
@(I for one would love to see this fixed).
@

Unfortunately, people working on the various "whois" and "whois-like"
software systems are all going in different directions. About all you can
rely on is the IPv4 DNS. This is why the IPv8 Plan uses the DNS to
encode "whois-like" information. That makes it globally available in
a consistent manner.


Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com
1998 - The Year of the C+@