At 10:09 AM 1/22/99 +0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
>It's unfortunate that it hasn't occurred to you that the CORRECT answer to
>the current problem is to return to the service that worked, rather than
>have this sort of private change made without consultation and consensus by
>the Internet community.
What I find interesting is that the majority of "real" complaints are
regarding the disappearance of the status line. I wonder what do members of
RIPE and APNIC do? Their whois report looks completely different from NSI's
report. I realise that whois is supposed to be man-readable only. But, like
any other interface, someone is bound to write a "screen scraper" for it.
That NSI does not acknowlege this is true is a questionable act on their
part. whois output format, for the NSI controlled TLDs, has been constant
for a very long time (greater than 5 years). To make an unannounced change
that could break countless programs around the net is irresponsible. Note
that the status line only is visible if the thatus is NOT normal. There may
be many programs running that people do not know are broken, at the moment.
Has NSI made any effort to publicise the change?
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