>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [IFWP] Experimental Cross-Registrar WHOIS >References: <000801bec8b8$cd181dc0$29d8f78c@tp7701> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > >Ben Edelman wrote: > >> Currently it seems that there is no single authoritative WHOIS. Rather, >> each registrar keeps its own data of its own registrants. This makes it >> difficult to figure out whether a domain is truly available for >> registration, so we've rigged up a search system to simultaneously query all >> operating testbed registrars for information about a given domain. > >A similar issue was addressed in the 1996 Telecom Act and subsequent FCC actions >which implement entry of competitive phone companies into the local markets. >The Act and regs require >the BOCs to give competitive phone companies access to the various elements >necessary to provide service, including the call-related databases (i.e. >enabling caller ID and calling name delivery service--CNAM). > >As I understand it, this legislated access has been approved by the U.S. Supreme >Court. > > > > > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "They were of a mind to govern us and we were of a mind to govern ourselves."
