Good idea, Ambrose. I presume the asterisk is a place-holder and will appear in the case of attributes that are neither look-up nor inverse keys? Regards. Mike
person: [mandatory] [single] [look-up key] address: [mandatory] [multiple] * phone: [mandatory] [multiple] * fax-no: [optional] [multiple] * e-mail: [optional] [multiple] [look-up key] nic-hdl: [optional] [single] [look-up key] remarks: [optional] [multiple] * notify: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] mnt-by: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] changed: [mandatory] [multiple] * source: [mandatory] [single] *
where [look-up key] indicates that you use this attribute as an argument to whois and [inverse key] indicates that you can use the attribute as an argument to whois -i.