On Monday, 13 Sep 1999, "Kurt Jaeger" writes: Hello Kurt
The RIPE TLD-WG might try to get a standards discussion started for all technical interfaces into DNS registration:
- whois query interface - template syntax - syntax checks on fields - Validity checks - Change/Modify interface
in short, for every aspect required to automate as many tasks as possible for domain delegation.
Since IMO all TLD's in the RIPE area use RIPE WHOIS your proposal makes sense. I do not fully understand these issues:
- syntax checks on fields - Validity checks
Do you mean checks implemented in WHOIS or checks implemented by the interface offered by the registry to you to enter WHOIS information ?
- Change/Modify interface
What interface ? WHOIS uses an ASCII text based simple query mechanism to communicate with. See RFC-954. Where ist the interface here ? Are you suggesting one ? Marcel -------- Logged at Mon Sep 13 16:26:08 CEST 1999 ---------