Re: WWWWW Notes: The wall, etc

Martin Hamilton ([email protected])
Wed, 8 Sep 1993 14:17:42 +0100 (BST)


Martijn Koster wrote:

> > use whois++
> > real soon now (Simon Spero)
>
> Can somebody enlighten me on how whois++ fits in?

Have you seen the Internet Draft "draft-ietf-wnils-whois-01.txt",
aka "Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service" ? ...

This document details a distributed, easily maintained architecture for
providing a unified index to a large number of distributed WHOIS++
servers. This architecture can be used with systems other than WHOIS++ to
provide a distributed directory service which