----- Original Message -----
From: "Winston D. Neutel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: XML Based WHOIS
> > Is there a means of getting WHOIS info in XML or some common data
> format?
> > Right now I use a WHOIS proxy server and it just returns registrant
> info in
> > the text format that the particular registrar decides to use.
>
> It would only exist if there is a proxy which, receiving the random
> format as your current proxy, reformats it before resending.
>
> i.e. From any angle, there's the same barrier -- the only hope is that
> someone else has bridged it for you :-)
>
> That reminds me: a question mark is necessary in the subject of such a
> message -- otherwise you raise (and quickly dash) hope in all the poor
> listmembers' hearts :-)
Apologies for the lack a question mark. It strikes me as odd that ICANN
wouldn't qiery require replies in at least a standardized text format.
Jim
