FYI: List of current proposals

  Hi Peter !

=>   lookup key. On the other hand I haven't had enough time and expertise
=>   to try to teach a browser about something like
=> 
=>   	whois://db-server-FQDN:43/lookup-key
=
=To my knowledge there are no whois-URLs yet, but you can (ab-)use
=gopher-URLs to watch Whois-Entries with your web-browser.
=Give it a try with <gopher://whois.ripe.net:43/0WW144>

  We actually use it in some situations, but there are two major problems
  involved:
  
  - this does no longer work for Netscape V2.x on Windows PCs 
    (while it does work on Unix boxes and V1.x an the PC was fine ;-)
    
  - and I think (for good reasons!) the RIPE-NCC is about to discontinue
    the gopher access to the whois database. It's a fairly limited
    approach anyway.
    
  Thus we have been looking into alternatives and ways of tricking the
  web browser into doing things that it wasn't meant for :-)
  
  Cheers,
  Wilfried.