On 14September2010Tuesday, at 1:12, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> 
>> On 2010-09-14 07:59, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>> [..]
>>> Does this sound like madness or something that might be of use? What WG
>>> might be best suited to bring this idea to?
>> 
>> What part can not be achieved with WHOIS/RPSL already?
> 
> Why aren't people using WHOIS for DNSBL? Massive amount of questions are 
> frowned upon by the people who run whois servers.
> 
>> The bigger issue though is just like WHOIS though: folks don't update.
>> And of course, folks will lie...
> 
> Absolutely, nothing is perfect.
> 
>> WHOIS is pretty meaningless for addresses and contacts already in quite
>> a number of cases, adding more data will only add more nonsense.
> 
> My idea wasn't to use WHOIS for this, I was more thinking in lines of 
> reverse-DNS but in new structure (under arpa.) or something completely new.
> 
> I think there is a need to somehow publish this information and do it 
> dynamically, and I don't think WHOIS is the way to go.

you mean something like this?

http://www.isi.edu/div7/publication_files/novel_use.htm

--bill


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