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<reference anchor='RFC1835'>

<front>
<title>Architecture of the WHOIS++ service</title>
<author initials='P.' surname='Deutsch' fullname='Peter Deutsch'>
<organization>BUNYIP INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Inc.</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>310 St-Catherine St West,</street>
<street>Suite 202</street>
<city>Montreal</city>
<region>Quebec</region>
<code>H2X 2A1</code>
<country>CA</country></postal>
<email>peterd@bunyip.com</email></address></author>
<author initials='R.' surname='Schoultz' fullname='Rickard Schoultz'>
<organization>KTHNOC, SUNET/NORDUnet/Ebone Operations Centre</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>100 44 STOCKHOLM</street>
<country>SE</country></postal>
<email>schoultz@sunet.se</email></address></author>
<author initials='P.' surname='Faltstrom' fullname='Patrik Faltstrom'>
<organization>BUNYIP INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Inc.</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>310 St-Catherine St West</street>
<street>Suite 202</street>
<city>Montreal</city>
<region>Quebec</region>
<code>H2X 2A1</code>
<country>CA</country></postal>
<email>paf@bunyip.com</email></address></author>
<author initials='C.' surname='Weider' fullname='Chris Weider'>
<organization>BUNYIP INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Inc.</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>2001 S. Huron Parkway</street>
<street>#12</street>
<city>Ann Arbor</city>
<region>MI</region>
<code>48104</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<email>clw@bunyip.com</email></address></author>
<date month='August' year='1995' />
<abstract>
<t>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.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='1835' />
</reference>
