> This is not the response I was looking for (and reading the RFC makes > me feel even worse). > > Is there a better mechanism for querying NICs for host/owner information? > There will be, one day. And the start (although not the whole journey) will be when this I-D follows the standard path all the way to STD: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-weirds-rdap-query-18.html Rubens