> > use whois++
> > real soon now (Simon Spero)
>
> Can somebody enlighten me on how whois++ fits in?
Have you seen the Internet Draft "draft-ietf-wnils-whois-01.txt",
aka "Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service" ? ...
This document details a distributed, easily maintained architecture for
providing a unified index to a large number of distributed WHOIS++
servers. This architecture can be used with systems other than WHOIS++ to
provide a distributed directory service which