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        RFC 1835:

        Title:      Architecture of the WHOIS++ service
        Author:     P. Deutsch, R. Schoultz, P. Faltstrom & C. Weider
        Date:       August 1995
        Mailbox:    peterd@bunyip.com, schoultz@sunet.se,
                    paf@bunyip.com, clw@bunyip.com
        Pages:      41
        Characters: 80,581
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1835.txt


This document describes WHOIS++, an extension to the trivial WHOIS
service described in RFC 954 to permit WHOIS-like servers to make
available more structured information to the Internet.  We describe an
extension to the simple WHOIS data model and query protocol and a
companion extensible, distributed indexing service.  A number of
options have also been added such as the use of multiple languages and
character sets, more advanced search expressions, structured data and
a number of other useful features.  An optional authentication
mechanism for protecting all or part of the associated WHOIS++
information database from unauthorized access is also described.  This
RFC is the product of the Whois and Network Information Lookup Service
Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol

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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute