>That's my observation as well. I believe it's the case that any >reliability people see from WHOIS is coincidental, and not the result of >any standards effort from IETF or a policy effort from ICANN.
Domain WHOIS for ICANN gTLDs is actually well standardized, except for .com and .net. (I realize this is like saying all water is fresh, except for the ocean.) I believe that the plan is to migrate .com and .net to the standard format at some point, but I don't know what the schedule is. The RIRs are indeed all different, and even when the format is reasonably well defined, the data are often missing or contradictory. In any event, I think we agree that scraping data from WHOIS is not suitable for any IETF standardization any time soon. R's, John _______________________________________________ marf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/marf
