Implementation
Stay on port 43?
- Everyone knows port 43!
- Backwards compatibility issues…
- Don’t want to get bogged down in the niche/other uses of whois (whois BOF’s at IETF 49, 51).
- Don’t want to have to re-invent security,internationalization, etc… features.
Not 43?
- Fresh start!
- Don’t invent too much.
- Does the world really need another application transport?
- Does the world really need another schema language?
- If we are smart, we can re-use a lot of existing building blocks to create a new protocol (e.g. BEEP, SASL, XML).
- Possibility of existing protocols: LDAP, whois++, Rwhois, UDDI.