Bill Simpson asked: "Please quote the exact language in the MoU that describes removing the "who" from whois?" The requirement for changing Port 43 whois responses is detailed in Amendment 19, Para 3A as available at the ICANN web site at: http://www.icann.org/nsi/coopagmt-amend19-04nov99.htm 3. InterNIC A. Within six months from the effective date of this amendment (the "Transition Period"), NSI shall transfer the internic.com, internic.org and internic.net SLD names to the Department of Commerce. Beginning within twenty-one days of this amendment and until NSI has completed such transfer, NSI shall provide port 43 Whois access to registry data through rs.internic.net. Such Whois service shall return, in addition to the requested registry data, a message stating: "Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information." This requirement was inserted at the request of the registrar community to the ICANN board. The NSI Registry is committed to working within the IETF process towards a more ubiquitous solution (ala draft-faltstrom-whois-02.txt). --Tom -----Original Message----- From: William Allen Simpson [mailto:wsimpson@greendragon.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 3:40 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Cc: whois@nsiregistry.net Subject: Re: Port 43 Whois Announcement What nonsense is this? The registrant and contact information should be in the same records as the name servers. After all, that's why we called it "whois", not something else. We want the "who" part, so that we can contact them! Please quote the exact language in the MoU that describes removing the "who" from whois? "Newell, Tom" wrote:

An FYI of an operational nature.......

--Tom Director of gTLD Programs NSI Registry

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Redirecting Port 43 Whois

The following change is being made to comply with the recently negotiated and signed agreements between the U.S. Department of Commerce, ICANN, and NSI.

Effective December 1, 1999 Network Solutions will be redirecting port 43 (rs.internic.net) Whois from the NSI Registrar Whois to the NSI Registry Whois. The NSI Registry Whois can currently be found at whois.nsiregistry.net. After this occurs, port 43 Whois will show the following information: domain name, registrar, Whois server, registrar referral URL and the names of the name servers associated with the domain. To obtain registrant and domain name contact information, users will need to refer to the Whois service provided by the registrar for the domain name.

Send questions or comments to whois@nsiregistry.net.

-- WSimpson@UMich.edu Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32