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This is a DUA interface, using LDAP, that conforms to the latest (not yet)
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Internet Draft for the Whois++ Architecture. It does NOT support the indexing
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service also proposed under Whois++.
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It is a gateway to X.500 (similar to the finger and gopher gateways) which
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allows the user to access the directory via a mechanism that they are
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comfortable with and/or have access to. The real Directory Service (and the
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only practical large scale distributed directory service) is provided by the
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underlying X.500 service. This implementation is not an endorsement of Whois++
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but I recognise that there are users whose only interface to a directory
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service is via a whois client. It therefore attempts to service these users,
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much like the other two gateways.
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Comments on the Whois++ specification should be sent to the IETF Whois and
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Network Information Lookup Service (WNILS) Working Group. The e-mail address
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of the group is ietf-wnils@ucdavis.edu, to be added to the mailing list send
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a request to ietf-wnils-request@ucdavis.edu. Comments about this program
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should be directed to the discussion list ldap-whois++@itd.adelaide.edu.au,
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(send a message to ldap-whois++-request@itd.adelaide.edu.au to join). I will
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post bug fix announcements to this list.
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Mark Prior
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6 May 93
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