kis

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kis - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Knowbot Information Service
  KIS
  netaddress
  
     <networking, information science> (KIS) Also known as
     netaddress.  The Knowbot Information Service (KIS) provides a
     uniform user interface to a variety of remote directory services
      such as whois, finger, X.500, MCIMail.  By
     submitting a single query to KIS, a user can search a set of
     remote white pages services and see the results of the
     search in a uniform format.
  
     There are several interfaces to the KIS service including
     electronic mail and telnet.  Another KIS interface
     imitates the Berkeley whois command.
  
     KIS consists of two distinct types of modules which interact
     with each other (typically across a network) to provide the
     service.  One module is a user agent module that runs on the
     KIS mail host machine.  The second module is a remote server
     module (possibly on a different machine) that interrogates
     various database services across the network and provides the
     results to the user agent module in a uniform fashion.
     Interactions between the two modules can be via messages
     between Knowbots or by actual movement of Knowbots.
  
     There are electronic mail interfaces for KIS at the hosts
     cnri.reston.va.us and sol.bucknell.edu.  Send a message
     containing just the word "man" to <kis@cnri.reston.va.us> or
     <netaddress@sol.bucknell.edu>.  Telnet: info.cnri.reston.va.us
     port 185.