Re: Ripe change to whois

[Hank Nussbacher <]

At 02:17 PM 11/30/98 +0100, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:

I admit that I have not taken part in the DB WG, since I trust the work done
there, and all changes that have been done over the past years have been
fine and in their place.  This change too, from a technical aspect - is
good.  I would not have spotted the "human engineering" aspects either even
if I was on the list and contributing.  

Sometimes, one can admit their mistakes and say we need to reevaluate the
results.  I have received another 3 calls today (we only register 500
domains per month on average in .il) from users wanting to buy .il domains
from me.  No one else is seeing this problem???

-Hank

>Dear Hank,
>
>May be (or may be not) the "human engineering aspects" were discussed enough 
>but, please,
>if things like this affect your work so much, get into the db-wg mailing list 
>and give your input.
>
>The TLD wg was also involved in this and they were actually very much looking 
>forward to have this mechanism in place.
>
>If you still feel that "This needs to be rectified" you can discuss this with 
>the community, although it would have been better to discuss all this when the 
>design was proposed instead of going around the loop again (which, of course, 
>we'll do if users want to).
>
>I'll wait and listen.
>
>Regards,
>Joao
>
> Hank Nussbacher hank@localhost writes:
> * At 01:01 PM 11/30/98 +0100, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
> * 
> * Yes, that may be all correct - from a techno standpoint.  What I am
> * stressing is the human engineering aspect.  Up till now, thousands of hits
> * are sent to the whois.ripe.net every month to determine whether a domain
> * exists or not.  Users have been doing this for years.  Suddenly, the output
> * is different and they do not realize it.  I highly doubt that the human
> * engineering aspect was discussed or analyzed to any extent in the DB WG.  -H
> * ank
> * 
>
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