@techreport{faltstrom-whois-05,
    number =    {draft-faltstrom-whois-05},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-faltstrom-whois/05/},
    author =    {Mark Kosters and Patrik Fältström},
    title =     {{Referal extension to the Whois protocol}},
    pagetotal = 14,
    year =      2000,
    month =     may,
    day =       2,
    abstract =  {This document presents extensions to the Whois protocol output format which enables a possibility for the server to send referal information to the Whois client. This referal mechanism can be used for example in a situation with a registrar/registry model, where the registrars all have their own Whois databases, and together they serve a whole TLD. It can also be used when implementing a root-whois service on top of all whois servers in the world, and this way enable the possibility of creating advanced proxy services. For the latter, a registration procedure is also suggested, where Whois services can be registered. Discussion on this Internet-Draft is to be held on the mailing list ietf-whois-ext@imc.org, which is hosted by the Internet Mail Consortium. To subscribe, send an email to ietf-whois-ext-request@imc.org, with the text 'subscribe' as the only word in the body of the mail. There is an archive of the mailing list at \textless{}http://www.imc.org/ietf-whois-ext/\textgreater{}.},
}