FYI: List of current proposals

  > "Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet" <woeber at cc.univie.ac.at> writes:
  > 
  >   Do I read this correctly to expect me (the users wanting access) to
  >   install some cgi script on the/a local server to provide that
  >   interface? That might drastically limit the usefulness of this approach.

No. He who runs a whois service can call the whoisd as/in a cgi script.
The user just fetches a URL of the form (say)

	http://www.ripe.net/cgi/whois?Woeber

at which point whoisd gets queried with (say)

	-H Woeber

and the -H would cause the output whould not be the usual ASCII output 
but HTML.

Of course there will also be 

	http://www.ripe.net/.../whois.html

which will provide a form to enter a query.

Daniel