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List:       rwhois
Subject:    Re: 1.5 Client
From:       Michael Mealling <michael () bailey ! dscga ! com>
Date:       1998-03-18 15:50:39
Message-ID: 199803181550.KAA10740 () bailey ! dscga ! com
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Steve Atkins said this:
> > Dang... any chance at someone writing a C client in the future?  It
> > would be nice to have something that talked both whois and rwhois,
> > and intelligently at that.
> > 
> > Sure would be nice to say:
> > 
> >   rwhois 204.202.128.40
> > 
> > or
> > 
> >   rwhois abc.com
> > 
> > and have it "do the right thing" using the "well known" whois servers
> > as appropriate if nothing is found in the rwhois heirarchy.
> 
> I've been looking at adding rwhois support to the whois utils
> I have (for *nix & windows) but have been put off by the variety
> of rwhois protocols to choose from....
> 
> Is 1.5 a reasonable protocol to target, or 2.0?
> 

2.0 is not going to be implemented in its current draft form. Instead
it's moving into something called METAD (MIME Enabled Textually Accessed
Directories) which is a merger of RWhois, Whois++ with a liberal amount
of MIME-DIR added to taste. Go ahead and target 1.5. 

-MM

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