[RFCI-Discuss] ANNOUNCEMENT - Policy Change and Zone File Changes

[Derek J. Balling]

As previously discussed, the following policy changes will be effective 
Sunday, October 24th:

-	The 'ipwhois' zone will be deprecated. It will be an empty zone, 
using the same NS-set, until 12/31/2004. The "127.0.0.2" test IP will 
also no longer be included in that zone. On 1/1/2005, the zone will be 
changed to have an NS of "localhost.rfc-ignorant.org" with an obscenely 
high TTL.

-	The 'whois' zone will have the following policy changes made to it:

	-	ccTLDs or gTLDs which have "incomplete but SOME contact information 
available" will no longer be listable. Any existing entries will be 
marked as removed (e.g., "uk")

	-	individual domains with incomplete contact information will no 
longer be listable. They will be removed as-is, on a case by case basis 
as they are encountered (rather than trying to individually review each 
and every entry in the database)

	-	ccTLDs or gTLDs with no contact information, with no WHOIS server, 
or with demonstrably broken WHOIS server (e.g., "de") will continue to 
be listable

	-	individual domains with NO contact information, inaccurate 
information, or demonstrably false information, will continue to be 
listable.

	-	The 'whois' zone policy page will be updated to reflect its reliance 
on RFC1032 rather than RFC954.

We ask that sites which presently publicly mirror our data continue to 
provide mirrors for the "empty" ipwhois zone until the end of the year, 
to provide an orderly withdrawal of the zone from public use.

There has been some talk of people wanting to fork the ipwhois project. 
I am more than willing to make the data available to someone for that 
purpose, but you will want and need to act fairly quickly, obviously. 
It would not be appropriate for me (as the maintainer of 
rfc-ignorant.org) to also maintain a different zone that's not quite 
based on current RFCs, simply for the obvious political and 
public-relations reasons.

Cheers,
D
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