These values were arbitrarily selected based on previous experience on what NSI's whois showed (when they were a monopoly) and what mixed best with the underlying database technology being used at the time. There's no real RFC or standard for whois output (which is a pain - and yes, quite annoying - but hey...)
Charles Daminato TUCOWS Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Julián Muñoz Domínguez wrote: > > In opensrs_client_protocol_spec242.PDF, page 26, is the length and type of > the contact fields. > > I was looking for this datas but at a more generic level (not only > OpenSRS, in order to create a "for all the life database"), but I don't > find them. > > >From where are taken this values ?? Are they generic ?? Looked at RFCs, > and more documentation, and maximum length doesn't appear, which is quite > annoying. > > Thanks in advance > > > -- > > __o > _ \<_ > (_)/(_) > > Saludos de Julián > EA4ACL > -.- > > > >
