RFC 2167: Referral Whois (RWhois) Protocol V1.5

This memo describes Version 1.5 of the client/server interaction of RWhois. RWhois provides a distributed system for the discovery, retrieval, and maintenance…

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Outgoing relationships (8 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 1714: Referral Whois Protocol (RWhois)
Informative reference — RFC 1034: Domain names - concepts and facilities
Informative reference — RFC 822: STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGES
Informative reference — RFC 821: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
Informative reference — RFC 954: NICNAME/WHOIS
Informative reference — RFC 1991: PGP Message Exchange Formats
Informative reference — RFC 2052: A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)

Incoming relationships (3 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 3467: Role of the Domain Name System (DNS)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3663: Domain Administrative Data in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2626: The Internet and the Millennium Problem (Year 2000)