From toddcooley at yahoo.com Wed Nov 3 21:00:53 1999 From: toddcooley at yahoo.com (todd cooley) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 12:00:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: ccTLD's Message-ID: <19991103200053.16301.rocketmail@web601.yahoomail.com> I am a third year law student at the University of Miami in Florida. I am currently writing a paper regarding ccTLD's and ownership. Do ccTLD's attach to the country they represent as appurtances of sovereignty? Any information you can provide on this topic would be appreciated. Thank you, Todd Cooley ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -------- Logged at Mon Nov 15 17:21:01 CET 1999 --------- From engin at ripe.net Mon Nov 15 16:32:06 1999 From: engin at ripe.net (Engin Gunduz) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 16:32:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: A new type of referral Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We will be implementing a new type of referral, to be used to forward the querying client's IP address to the referred whois server along with the query. Until now, there was no way to let the referred whois server know the IP address of the actual whois client, rendering the usage of an ACL impossible without blocking all referred queries, on the side of the referred whois server. Briefly, o A fourth kind of referral will be defined, CLIENTADDRESS (The other three were RIPE, INTERNIC and SIMPLE). o The IP address of the client will be sent to the referred whois server, if the referral type is CLIENTADDRESS. o The IP address will be sent using the -V flag. The version and the IP address will be separated by a comma (eg, -Vripe2.3.1,193.140.45.45). o No other flag will be forwarded to the referred whois server. o When the server gets such a request, it will check the IP number of the server which does the referral against a list of authorized whois servers. If it is not in the list, it will be rejected. o Then, the IP address of the client will be extracted from the -V flag string and it will be regarded as if it is the IP address of a directly querying whois client (ie, it is checked against the list of DENYWHOISACESS list). Please let us know about your ideas and comments regarding this issue, Regards, Engin Gunduz RIPE NCC DB Group -------- Logged at Tue Nov 16 17:22:53 CET 1999 --------- From schneider at switch.ch Tue Nov 16 17:22:44 1999 From: schneider at switch.ch (Marcel Schneider) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 17:22:44 +0100 Subject: A new type of referral In-Reply-To: Message from Engin Gunduz of "Mon, 15 Nov 1999 16:32:06 +0100." References: Message-ID: <25896.942769364@limmat.switch.ch> On Monday, 15 Nov 1999, Engin Gunduz writes: Dear Engin Gunduz We appreciate your efforts and consider your proposal a good idea. Looking forward to get it implemented asap. The CLIENTADDRESS will enable us to limit time and number of queries from referral servers by using a wrapper we wrote around our WHOIS that has configurable access mechanisms based on IP addresses. The background for all this is mainly privacy: people are currently using all means to get access to addresses of Internet users (mostly for spamming purposes). One means is querying RIPE's Josh because such queries could not be limited until now by the authoritative WHOIS server due to lack of detailed information (we would have had to limit the entire Josh). We also encourage other registries to configure their WHOIS servers to allow referral queries by RIPE and let their own WHOIS server answer authoritatively. Marcel > We will be implementing a new type of referral, to be used > to forward the querying client's IP address to the referred > whois server along with the query. Until now, there was no > way to let the referred whois server know the IP address > of the actual whois client, rendering the usage of an ACL > impossible without blocking all referred queries, on the side > of the referred whois server. > Briefly, > o A fourth kind of referral will be defined, CLIENTADDRESS (The other > three were RIPE, INTERNIC and SIMPLE). > o The IP address of the client will be sent to the referred whois > server, if the referral type is CLIENTADDRESS. > o The IP address will be sent using the -V flag. The version and the IP > address will be separated by a comma (eg, -Vripe2.3.1,193.140.45.45). > o No other flag will be forwarded to the referred whois server. > o When the server gets such a request, it will check the IP number of > the server which does the referral against a list of authorized whois > servers. If it is not in the list, it will be rejected. > o Then, the IP address of the client will be extracted from the -V flag > string and it will be regarded as if it is the IP address of a directly > querying whois client (ie, it is checked against the list of > DENYWHOISACESS list). > Please let us know about your ideas and comments regarding this issue, > Regards, > Engin Gunduz > RIPE NCC > DB Group -------- Logged at Fri Feb 18 11:03:25 CET 2000 ---------