Re:Sunsetting Whois
by technopol on Sunday March 16, 2025 @09:31PM
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This seems like it would break things.
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I’m serious! I don’t know why we’re turning a fundamental command off, even if it didn’t work correctly for everything. Do you realize how much documentation and how many tools reference it? And it still can work.
shocking news indeed.
Major regression. How can we trust the internet now ?
I think people know you're serious (I'm not one of the downvoters), but that it seems silly to stop all innovation for the sake of legacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_ossification is a big enough problem that we're being taught about this in school so that we're aware of the problem and maybe things get better in the future