On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:50:24AM +0200, Frank Ellermann <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 44 lines which said: > Okay, ball in play again, after killing RfC 954 forcing "us" to use > 1032 they now intend to kill RfC 1032, Killing RFC 954 was the right thing to do because RFC 954 made a cardinal mistake: it specified a protocol (useful, widely in use, now specified in RFC 3912), *and* a policy. THIS IS NOT IETF BUSINESS. IETF should not specify policy, wether for TLDs or for anyone else, only policies for its own internal processes. > therefore I try to stay up to date with efforts like the expired > draft-sanz, or whois-servers.net, or the persistent attempts to > destroy simple Internet infrastructure like "whois" in favour of > complex solutions. Nobody suggested to kill the whois protocol, just the badly written and obsolete RFCs which were requiring violations of various european laws regarding privacy. Neither ICANN or IETF should specify privacy policy for a ccTLD. (And I prefer the whois protocol to IRIS but this is a technical issue while killing RFC 954 was a political one, and a right one.) _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf