RE: Re[2]: [ga] Transfers & WHOIS

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

|> From: William X Walsh [mailto:william@wxsoft.info]
|> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:12 PM
|> 
|> Friday, Friday, December 07, 2001, 12:38:36 PM, Roeland Meyer wrote:
|> 
|> > Some of us, running other root zones, are doing our own 
|> whois efforts.
|> > Including running code. Unless these guys are going to 
|> make the code a
|> > sourceforge project, I really don't see how they're going 
|> to have a major
|> > impact.
|> 
|> Probably because the alt.roots are so small in usage that they aren't
|> that major an area to ignore.

I was thinking more along the lines of the open source community. It isn't
just the public alt.roots (which are actually the inclusive roots, BTW),
It's the general way that the Internet works. In that regard, the ICANN is
in the same boat. This whois task force is still building a proprietary
whois. Just like the one we had before. Now an open source whoisd would more
likely have an impact.

What I'm objecting to is the closed nature of the project. It is incidental
that other root players are also interested. But, not inconsequential.
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