Re: FYI

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

jim and all,

  CC'ing this to the pertanant Lists.  

  Are you saying here that having a WHOIS facility is not
paramount according to the RFP, as being essential to 
a shared registry system?  Please advise, anyone?

Jim Fleming wrote:
> 
> whois is evidently not a high priority...
> 
> @@@ http://www.core.gtld-mou.org/rfp/rfp-final.txt
> 
> Assuming that a contract can be satisfactorily agreed to and executedby
> October 10, 1997, the assignment is expected to commence on October20,
> 1997. The selected company must achieve substantial completion ofthe
> project by February 9, 1998. Substantial completion means thatthe Work has
> reached that stage of progress which permits CORE'smembers to (a) accept
> registrations for each of the seven Top LevelDomains discussed in the
> gTLD-MoU, and (b) publish RFC- compliant zonefiles for the use of the
> Internet Domain Name System. Otherrequirements, such as a working WHOIS
> facility, are essential to the final completion of the work but, depending
> on the level offunctionality achieved by the system as a whole, would not
> per sepreclude a finding of substantial completion.
> 
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> 
> Jim Fleming
> Unir Corporation
> IBC, Tortola, BVI

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