List Mail User wrote on Thu, 25 May 2006 23:02:21 -0700 (PDT): > DeNIC does not follow this protocol;
1. there's nothing which backs your claim, *nothing*. 2. "example" is an example and nothing else. You should know that. There are also special words in RFCs which clearly define mandatory things. What you claim is a wish, it's not defined by that RFC. There is nothing in that RFC that defines a *required* syntax other than terminating the one-line query. There is *nothing* in that RFC that *requires* a certain output volume or content volume, just that you get some text about the queried object back. > BTW. The many common clients use the "ISO-8859-1" character set, which only > works for a subset of the domains at DeNIC - so please don't count any of > these as "not broken" (and "US-ASCII" still doesn't work for all domains > either - just nearly all). What's the problem with this? Non-ISO-8859-1 text isn't text? Is that what you want to say? Think about that again. > Oh, and for clients that follow referrals to HTTP servers (which > many country specific NICs do provide in place of Whois servers), we have: > Simply, if it isn't plain text on port 43, it isn't a RFC compliant Whois > server. You are making up your own rules, again. There's nothing in the text you quoted that requires "plain text" (whatever you mean by that) and disallows referrals. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com
