Requirements for running a local 'whois' - George Michaelson, APNIC Sec.

Synopsis

The APNIC Secretariat is proposing technical and policy requirements for 
exchange of whois data with its membership. Very large members, such as 
the NIRs should be able to adopt local procedures to maintain whois data, 
and use live update methods to mirror this with the APNIC systems, for 
wider public visibility. This proposal focuses on the adoption of RPSL as 
a format for data, and use of compatible network protocols to exchange 
RPSL data.  
Policy requirements for the contents of the data are also clarified.