http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1913.txt
RFC 1913: Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service, C. Weider, J. Fullton, S. Spero1996-02-01T23:00:00-00:00The authors describe an architecture for indexing in distributed databases, and apply this to the WHOIS++ protocol. [STANDARDS-TRACK]