You may well be right that no one likes Whois, this could certainly facilitate migration to a new standard. But 20+ years of empirically based literature on standards development and adoption suggests we should pay attention to things other than technological obsolescence. By promoting or preventing a standard's adoption, firms [and governments] affect the competitive environment in which they will operate. (B&F 1994) To ignore the fact that there are economic and institutional interests driving the migration is naive.