PIR's whois server uses the same format as the Afilias .info one, even down to the text of the usage policy and using \r\n line endings. So people shouldn't have too much trouble parsing the output.
Mark. On 2003-01-28 (Tuesday) at 13:56:25 -0600, Bill Weinman wrote: > Hi Chuck, > > Yes, BW Whois should handle that transiton smoothly. It looks for the > "Whois Server:" string in the response to indicate that it's a "thin" > server. So as soon as they stop sending that, it should just work like a > normal whois server. > > Of course, odds are that they'll do something entirely different and > unexpected. ;^) > > --Bill > > > At 08:14 AM 1/28/03, Charles Daminato wrote: > >Note that, afaik, PIR is planning on transitioning .org to a thick registry > >in the relatively near future, and all the current infrastructure (whois, > >etc) at Afilias works with a thick model, so what they have in place is > >likely preliminary (and quicker than re-doing their whois) > > > ->-- > Bill Weinman <http://bw.org/> > Music Database <http://www.webmusicdb.com/> > Music <http://music.bw.org/> > Whois Client <http://whois.bw.org> > ->-+ >
