NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois

Wed Sep 2 19:14:35 UTC 1998

> Why not use rwhois and distribute the load like DNS is?  Let registerants
> decide if they want to provide rwhois support for their own domain(s) or
> if they want to delegate the task to the InterNIC to handle it.
> 
> Gee... imagine being able to update data about your DNS domains immediately
> instead of having to wait for the InterNIC to process the request.
> 
> Just my $0.02.
> 
> --
> Dan Watts
> Vitts Networks
> dwatts at vitts.com

Actually, you could kill two birds w/ one stone by keeping the data
in your inverse delegations.  There has been some thought on this
which could double as a distributed IRR, esp. for those who have
trouble getting to/through those centralized databases.

A brief note on how this might be done may be found at:
http://www.isi.edu/div7/people/bmanning.home/inet98.html
if I might toot my own horn here.  Note that this is similar
to, but does not go quite as far as the presentation given at
a recent NANOG mtg.

--bill