RE: [ga] whois.txt, ala robots.txt, as a standard ?

[Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, at 11:57 [=GMT-0800], George Kirikos wrote:

> 4. Maps? (funky MapQuest links!)
> 6. GPS data? (kind of like http://www.geourl.org/ which uses tags)

DNS already has the LOC record to do approximately something like this.

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> fuchsia.bijt.net. loc

;; ANSWER SECTION:
fuchsia.bijt.net.       4h1s IN LOC     52 06 09.000 N 5 13 49.000 E 0.00m
1.00m 10000.00m 10.00m

So now you know where to srop the bomb :-) More about the LOC record
through a link at the bottom of http://bijt.net/.

For other type of contact data, new records have been introduced in
connection with Enum, mainly NAPTR. Through this you can indicate how you
want to be contacted. That is not necessarily the same as giving away all
your data to everyone.

-- 
[08] We appreciate positive feedback.
http://logoff.org/

--
This message was passed to you via the ga@dnso.org list.
Send mail to majordomo@dnso.org to unsubscribe
("unsubscribe ga" in the body of the message).
Archives at http://www.dnso.org/archives.html