Re: Uniqueness of WHOIS handles

[Rick Wesson <wessorh at ar.com>]

Florian,

there is no guarantee the uniqueness of WHOIS handles. there is no name
space for whois, nor an entity to register such.

pick any prefix you wish.

-rick

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Is there some method to guarantee the uniqueness of WHOIS handles?
> Can I register affixes somehwere?
>
> I'm currently creating a WHOIS-like database (which might be publicly
> accessible one day), and I'd like to avoid handle collisions with
> other WHOIS databases.
>
> (I asked a similar question on some IETF WHOIS list a few months ago,
> but this list appears to be dead.)
>