A DNS Database Referral Mechanism

Quoting from Piet Beertema's message:
> 
> 
> 	>would it be possible to implement the suggestion made by Robert
> 	>Martin-Legene? It is more flexible...
> 
> 	>> If the TLD object contains a whois referral, we can
> 	>> a) query the server, and pass the response to the requester, preceded
> 	>> by a comment of the form: "The following data has been obtained from
> 	>> domain-registry.nl".
> 	>> b) pass the referral to the requester
> 	>> c) send the query to the server with the address of the requester
> 
> More flexible and more complicated. What exactly is the
> gain over the original, more simple proposal?

The proposal was:
  ...it shouldn't be a problem doing all three and
  let it be up the the owner of the object. Then the refer attrib could be

  refer: <forward-type> <whois-server-type> <host> [<port>]


where forward-type could be:
CHAIN   for a) method
REFER   for b) method
FORWARD for c) method

To me the advantage is obvious: the owner of the TLD object can
change the behaviour of the RIPE-DB server just by changing
the refer field...

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