On Monday, 13 Sep 1999, "Kurt Jaeger" writes: ...

Currently, each registry has its own "domain registration/modify" interface (some web-based, some mail based, maybe some are already database based).

Soon, PGP or GNU-PG as means for authentication will come into play. So, it's some to standardize, otherwise the RIPE members will have to "write code back and forth".

I start to understand that you are not talking about WHOIS but about some sort of registry-registrar protocol or maybe software. Is that correct ? If you're a CORE member you may present at RIPE-34 what you are doing. Or do you want RIPE members top develop a new one ? There ist the Registry- Registrar protocol currently developed by NSI with its testbed registrars and there is the SRS (Shared Registry System) proposed a while ago by CORE, but probably discontinued now. Hopefully we'll have Siegfried Langenbach at the RIPE meeting to learn more of the current status. Marcel -------- Logged at Tue Sep 14 15:04:36 CEST 1999 ---------