FYI: List of current proposals

"Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet" <woeber@cc.univie.ac.at> writes:

Do I read this correctly to expect me (the users wanting access) to install some cgi script on the/a local server to provide that interface? That might drastically limit the usefulness of this approach.

No. He who runs a whois service can call the whoisd as/in a cgi script. The user just fetches a URL of the form (say) http://www.ripe.net/cgi/whois?Woeber at which point whoisd gets queried with (say) -H Woeber and the -H would cause the output whould not be the usual ASCII output but HTML. Of course there will also be http://www.ripe.net/.../whois.html which will provide a form to enter a query. Daniel