WHOIS book
> My name is Garth Bruen and I am writing a book about WHOIS for Wiley. The
> book covers history, technical issues, coding and policy. I would like to
> include your PWhois in the text as an example (with full credit of course).
Of course you can use it.
> I am also interested in your general thoughts about WHOIS if you have time.
I think technically this service is little bit outdated.
If it is invented in out time, it should use for instance HTTP as a transport and should send output in some general structured text format (such as XML).
Also now WHOIS is too unstructured and should be standardized.
As well as whois server name discovery also should be strictly standardized.
And compliance with the standards should be monitored better: now there are no working whois server at all at some registries.