[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Principle on Proportionality for "Thin Data"access

[Andrew Sullivan]

Hi,

If we get rid of status, and expiry and created dates (and probably updated too) then we significantly reduce the value of the tool for the purposes of troubleshooting DNS resolution problems.  

That tool is valuable to network and dns resolver operators all over the Internet.  I have used it many times in performing such jobs, and every one of those fields is helpful in addressing technical failures. It has been helpful for those purposes, for example, when certain large companies have accidentally lost control of their domain: it's way better if the IT department can say to the CEO, "Looks like something is wrong with the domain -- it was just updated," as opposed to, "No, I have no idea why giantbankcorp.com suddenly stopped working."

The Internet is a distributed system.  If you want to play in its namespace, you need to operate things in a way that comports well with distributed operations.  If the ICANN community has really drifted so far from a bone-deep understanding of distributed operations that we see a real problem with thin data, then I fear we are the wrong people to talk about this topic at all. 

Best regards,

A

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Andrew Sullivan 
Please excuse my clumbsy thums. 

On May 30, 2017, at 20:26, Rob Golding <rob.golding at astutium.com> wrote:

>> You're seriously proposing that registrars should not disclose the
>> status of a domain, like whether it is registered or not?
> 
> "status" in the whois/rds context is the field called status which lists the "locks" (or lack of - hence the security /abuse issue) of a domain
> 
> If it's not registered it wont be in the database at all
> 
> e.g.
> 
> whois blahblah123.com
> No match for domain "BLAHBLAH123.COM".
> 
> ^ This (potential) domain is not registered
> 
> whois a-n-other.com
> Domain Status: OK
> 
> ^ This domain is not locked
> 
> Rob
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