Re: FYI

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 06:23:49PM +0000, Jeff Williams wrote:
> 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?

If you read the underlined stuff below:

> 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.

Whois is essential to the final completion of the work.  Is that too
hard to understand?

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