unfortunately WHOIS is a protocol, and a rather simple one.
handles are part of the service that some registries/registrars have chosen
to implement on top of the WHOIS protocol. (Others provide similar
services, but don't use handles; others use the WHOIS protocol for
completely unrelated services.)
For more discussion on issues related to access to registries/registrars, I
suggest the CRISP working group.
Harald
--On 12. oktober 2002 14:22 -0700 Einar Stefferud <Steflist(_at_)thor(_dot_)nma(_dot_)com>
wrote:
I suspect that a better answer was desired.
I suggest that the local WHOIS handles be distinguished by the global
WHOIS database name. I am assuming that no two WHOIS database providers
use the same global handle for their WHOIS servers.
Then your database searches can find the instances of local name and
report back with all the WHOIS sources available to help resolve the
query. Most of the time, the results will be singular, but when not
singular, the query response offers a way to resolve the ambiguity.
Then I think the proposal has a chance of working.
Cheers...\Stef
Rick Wesson <wessorh(_at_)ar(_dot_)com> posted:
Florian,
there is no guarantee the uniqueness of WHOIS handles. there is no name
space for whois, nor an entity to register such.
pick any prefix you wish.
-rick
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Is there some method to guarantee the uniqueness of WHOIS handles?
> Can I register affixes somehwere?
>
> I'm currently creating a WHOIS-like database (which might be publicly
> accessible one day), and I'd like to avoid handle collisions with
> other WHOIS databases.
>
> (I asked a similar question on some IETF WHOIS list a few months ago,
> but this list appears to be dead.)
>
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