Re: FYI

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

Antony and all,

Antony Van Couvering wrote:
> 
> Richard,
> 
> Actually, a distinct minority of NICs have a working whois.  Many of them
> still rely on long text files.  Your statement is factually incorrect.  And
> there wasn't a whois working when the first domains were registered with
> the early InterNIC, right?  CORE will have a working whois right from the
> get-go, and this will make it one of the very first TLDs to do so.

  Well if it does have a WHOIS from the get-go as you say here, how come
the RFP doesn't directly state that?  The RFP does say that one will be
developed bu possibly not implmented from the get-go, which are two
intirely two diffrent things.  I think this is what Richard, and myself
were questioning.  >;)
> 
> It's been very easy for the idle criticizers to sit around, watch the ball
> game or whatever, then head over and write some emails that say, "Ha! You
> haven't completed your project yet.  It must be evidence of gross
> incompetence." You will find this line of attack harder and harder to
> maintain as the COREdb gets built.

  It is still easy to point out gross inadaquacies in the MoU and
CORE-MoU.
I suspect it always will be.  This could of course change, if some
serious
modifications such as the one Paul suggested earlier on this thread
amongst
many others that have been suggested.  Food for thought?  >;)
> 
> When it's working, you will have to switch over from "you're incompetent"
> to "you're Big Brother".

  Possibly, but time will tell the tale here.  I have my doubts.
> 
> Just can't win with you guys.

  It is not about wining really, it is about doing the right thing for
all of the Internet community, not just what a few want to do.
> 
> Antony
> 
> At 08:58 PM 11/30/97 -0500, Richard J. Sexton wrote:
> >At 05:17 PM 11/30/97 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
> >
> >>Whois is essential to the final completion of the work.  Is that too
> >>hard to understand?
> >
> >Frankly yes. Everybody else got the whois part to work first.
> >
> >These are good reasons for this which you've apparantly yet
> >to discover.
> >--
> >            The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
> >                -- US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
> >
> > richard@sexton.org
> > Tortola, BVI
> >

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