Re: Registrar and registry backend processes.

[Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel () mamane lu>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:03:31AM +0100, Elmar K. Bins wrote:
> lionel () mamane lu (Lionel Elie Mamane) wrote:

> > > A nonprofit firm in Frankfurt, Denic eG, which manages Germany's
> > > eight million registered .de domain names, has also indicated that
> > > it is planning to bid.

> > For what it is worth, some consider the .de whois server broken;
> > see below. Let's note that the new RFC (3912) doesn't mention the
> > "help methodology" anymore.

> And some call this not broken but necessary. I can explain off-list,
> if you like.

> > $ telnet whois.denic.de whois
> > Trying 81.91.162.7...
> > Connected to whois.denic.de.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > ?
> > domain:      ?
> > status:      invalid

> Which is defined in what RfC?

RFC 954, which has recently (September 2004) been obsoleted by RFC
3912, which doesn't mention it anymore.

-- 
Lionel