Re: whois for just prefix list

[Russell Heilling <russell () ccie org uk>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 06:47:43AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> let's see
>   o we have massive heavy servers
>   o the most basic/frequent operation requires a massive heavy client
>
> what's wrong with this picture?

You've hit the nail on the head there.  The lack of a uniform query syntax 
across the registries requires intelligence in the client that would 
otherwise not be required.  

Defining standard query language syntax / information presentation format 
across the registries is exactly why the IETF CRISP working group exists.  
Lets hope that as a few of their I-Ds get onto the RFC standards track we 
can finally get a registry structure that is so easy to use that people 
start keeping their objects up to date ;)

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Russell Heilling
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