<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Paul<div><br></div><div>Please read (if you haven’t already) SSAC 51 on the use of the ‘Whois' term and why all that time ago, the SSAC recommended more precise wording when talking about registration data (services, the actual data and the protocol) so that people could avoid the confusion raised by using ‘Whois’ terminology and be very clear on what was being referred to. </div><div><br></div><div>Holly<br><div><div>On 10 Jan 2018, at 11:20 am, Paul Keating <<a href="mailto:paul@law.es">paul@law.es</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto">But it is WHOIS. <br><br><div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 10 Jan 2018, at 01:09, Holly Raiche <<a href="mailto:h.raiche@internode.on.net">h.raiche@internode.on.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks Andrew</span><br><span></span><br><span>So maybe we can now focus - please - on using the SSAC’s preferred language and on referring to RDDS or RDAP - and the issues raised by the RDAP protocols.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Holly</span><br><span>On 10 Jan 2018, at 10:59 am, Andrew Sullivan <<a href="mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com">ajs@anvilwalrusden.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:49:14AM +1100, Holly Raiche wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>To what extent should we stop using references to Whois, and start talking specifically about the RADP protocols that have been designed for the 21st century internet, and to what extent if any do they address the problems with registration data bases that you have identified - </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Well, I think that the SSAC answered this some time ago, by inventing</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>the notion of the RDDS. By extension we somehow got the RDS, which is</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>what this WG is supposed to be talking about. But we won't be helped</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>in that effort if we keep mentally substituting "whois" for either</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>RDDS or RDS.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Best regards,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>A</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>-- </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Andrew Sullivan</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com">ajs@anvilwalrusden.com</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>gnso-rds-pdp-wg mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg@icann.org">gnso-rds-pdp-wg@icann.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-rds-pdp-wg">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-rds-pdp-wg</a></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>gnso-rds-pdp-wg mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg@icann.org">gnso-rds-pdp-wg@icann.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-rds-pdp-wg">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-rds-pdp-wg</a></span><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>