JWHOIS is an Internet Whois client that contains an extensible configuration file which defines its operation. The client supports queries to foreign hosts either through the RFC 954 - NICNAME/WHOIS protocol, the RFC 2167 - Referral Whois 1.5 protocol, or HTTP using an external browser.
Upon execution, JWHOIS searches through the its configuration to find the most specific whois server to query. Depending upon the reply from that whois server, JWHOIS can assume the query was successfull and display the result to the user, or optionally redirect the query to another server to find more specific information.
La page travaux DN42 de la Fédération FDN, pour ceux que ça intéresse.
DN42 est un réseau overlay, dans lequel on utilise les mêmes protocoles que sur Internet (routage inter-AS réalisé avec BGP, DNS, whois, etc).
C'est le moyen de jouer avec des techniques qu'on met en place lorsqu'on crée un FAI
DN42 : http://dn42.net/
Ancien wiki : http://dn42.volcanis.me/initenv.1.html
Wiki : http://dn42.net/pages
Le groupe de travail de l'ICANN en charge des annuaires de noms de domaines Internet a remis il y a 2 jours un rapport (disponible en PDF) qui pourrait entraîner une profonde révision du fonctionnement de WHOIS, le système des bases de données qui gèrent les informations relatives aux noms de domaines. Et la proposition de constituer une base unique et centralisée, probablement hébergée aux USA, n’est pas sans risques…
An Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) working group is seeking public input on a successor to the current WHOIS system used to retrieve domain name information.
The Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services (EWG) has issued a report (PDF) that recommends a radical change from WHOIS. The working group, which had a clean-slate approach to a new domain name information, was formed "to help resolve the nearly decade-long deadlock within the ICANN community on how to replace the current WHOIS system, which is widely regarded as 'broken.'"
With the current system, client software can retrieve database records from a WHOIS server run by a registrar or registry that typically list details such as administrative and technical contact details for the owner of a domain name, name servers and details of the registration and expiry dates of a domain.
L'ICANN travaille sur une modification radicale du système des bases de données Whois, pour rassembler les informations sur les noms de domaine dans une base centralisée, auquel l'accès ne serait possible que sur autorisation préalable
Comment mettre en place le nécessaire pour gérer vous-même vos objets dans la base du Ripe.
"ICANN wants to store more data (including credit card information) about domain name registrations in its Whois database, wants to hold on to that data for two years after registration ends, and wants to force registrant contact information to be re-verified annually — moves that are applauded by David Vladeck, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. The E.U.'s Article 29 Working Group is markedly less enthusiastic, saying ICANN's plans trample on citizens' right to privacy." http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/302096/us-and-eu-clash-over-whois-data