Subject: RE: questions on whois

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:41:34 +0300

Hello,

Thanks for all your answers. The reason for my question is that I believe
this WG can /should affect, actively, the "overheated" policy WG concerning
the policy aspects of routing. In the policy WG, routing issues seem too low
to be a mgmt issue and too high 
to be an element-level issue. But how ?
 
Haitao 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EXT [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: 28 September, 1999 01:35
> To: [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: questions on whois
> 
> 
> 
> Quite a few ISPs configure their routers with policies from the whois
> (routing registry database, e.g. from whois.ra.net,
> whois.ripe.net). The level at which they configure their routers from
> these databases varies. Nevertheless, for these ISPs, the database is
> quite serious.
> 
> [email-masked] ([email-masked]) on September 24:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Here is a new comer for this WG, who wishes someone would 
> help him for the
> > questions: Except for searching the registered information 
> of users, hosts,
> > and organizations, 
> > do or will we use the WHOIS database to help inter-domain 
> networking ? How
> > serious issue is the WHOIS database to the Internet? Thank 
> you a lot.
> > 
> > Haitao 
> 
> 
> Cengiz
> 
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> Cengiz Alaettinoglu           Information Sciences Institute
> http://www.isi.edu/~cengiz    University of Southern California
>