FW: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-tld-whois-01.txt

[Luiz Sergio Canario <canario@cno.com.br>]

I dont know if some of you are in the ietf mailing list. So I am putting the following message mailed in the ietf mailing list.

I think it could be usefull in our discussion. Any way, there are some other people than the iahc trying to address this issue.

regards

Luiz Sergio Canario
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  A Revised Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
  directories.                                                              
 
        Title     : Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval                 
        Author(s) : J. Klensin, T. Wolf
        Filename  : draft-klensin-tld-whois-01.txt
        Pages     : 6
        Date      : 11/19/1996
 
 Location of web information for particular companies based on their names 
 has become an increasingly difficult problem and the Internet and the web 
 grow.   The use of a naming convention and the domain name system (DNS) for
 that purpose has caused complications for the latter while not solving the 
 problem.  While there have been several proposals to use contemporary, 
 high-capability, directory service and search protocols to reduce the 
 dependencies on DNS conventions, none of them have been significantly 
 deployed.                              
                                     
 This document proposes a company name to URL mapping service based on the 
 oldest and least complex of Internet directory protocols, whois, in order 
 to explore whether and extremely simple and widely-deployed protocol can 
 succeed where more complex and powerful options have failed or been 
 excessively delayed.                                                       
 
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