Announce: RWhois 1.5 Spec

[Koert Zeilstra]

The new spec for RWhois 1.5 is available at:

http://www.rwhois.net/rwhois/rwhois1.5/rwhois-1.5.html

If you want to print it, you can download the PostScript or ASCII file:
http://www.rwhois.net/rwhois/rwhois1.5/rwhois-1.5.ps
http://www.rwhois.net/rwhois/rwhois1.5/rwhois-1.5.txt

A short summary of changes in the protocol since 1.0:

General
      Multiple authority areas per server. 
      Data replication. 
      Revised schema model. 
      Revised query routing rules. 
      Revised error codes. 
      Removed unnecessary spaces in responses and results. 

Directives
      Class: New. Returns meta-information for a class. 
      Display: Can return supported display formats. 
      Load: Obsolete. 
      Notify: Syntax change. 
      Private: Obsolete. 
      Register: Syntax change. 
      Schema: Syntax change. 
      Security: Obsoletes Private. 
      Xfer: Syntax change. 

Query
      Display option removed. 
      Output format: Only the dump format is standard; optional type
         character added. 
      Attribute-restricted query. 
      Revised referral syntax

Please send questions and comments to the mailing lists:
rwhois at rwhois.net: for issues related to using the rwhois server,
rwhois-workers at rwhois.net: for issues related to software development
                           and the protocol.

Koert

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Koert Zeilstra <kzeil at rwhois.net> - http://www.rwhois.net/~kzeil
Rwhois Development Team - Network Solutions, Herndon, VA