RE: FYI

["Palmer, John" <jpalmer@utilinc.com>]

AGN DOMAIN NAME SERVICES has a WHOIS database for .USA, .EARTH and .Z
and it is not a text file, it is an 
Oracle database. In fact, the entire registration software system has
just been J-Z'ed. It uses a combination of 
Java and VB5 components and will be adapted to the MS transaction server
by 1-Feb.


John
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jeff Williams [SMTP:jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent:	Monday, December 01, 1997 2:50 AM
> To:	Antony Van Couvering
> Cc:	Global TLD's discuss; DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.INTERNIC.NET
> Subject:	Re: FYI
> 
> 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
> > >
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Jeffrey A. Williams
> DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java Development Eng.
> Information Eng. Group. IEG. INC. (Soon to be INEG. INC) Stay tunned! 
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> 
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>