[tech-whois] FW: Comments on Technical Evolution of the Whois Service

[Steve Sheng]

FYI. Comments from Hugo Salgado regarding the Technical Evolution of the Whois Service document. We welcome any additional comments.

Any thoughts / responses to Hugo's comment?

Warm regards,
Steve

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From: Hugo Salgado <hsalgado at nic.cl>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:16:46 -0800
To: Francisco Arias <francisco.arias at icann.org>
Subject: Comments on Technical Evolution of the Whois Service

Dear Francisco.
I'd like to comment the "Technical Evolution of the Whois Service
Preliminary Draft, 15 November 2010" document that you presented
in 39th ICANN's meeting, that I obtained through this link:

<http://cartagena39.icann.org/meetings/cartagena2010/presentation-tech-evolu
tion-whois-service-15nov10-en.pdf>

1. I think there's a fourth point in the 3 deficiencies of the WHOIS
   protocol that are enumerated in page 3, under "Extending the existing
   WHOIS protocol:" subtitle. That's the "Referrals" item. Even when is
   mentioned in the RWhois description and as a implicit benefit of the
   HTTP protocol, I believe is of great importance and should be one of
   the key requirement of an improved whois, whatever solution will be.

2. IMHO there's a chance of another option for improving whois: create a
   new "application-transport" layer in IRIS (such as BEEP and LWZ) that
   uses HTTP. In that way you benefit from the data standarization of
   IRIS (request/response format, schemas, entities) and the work of
   the IETF, and you gain all the benefits of using RWS with the
   existing web infrastructure and expertise. We can ask for guidance
   of the IRIS authors and write a draft, and maybe reopen the CRISP
   WG in the IETF.


My 2 cents.

Saludos y un feliz año 2011!

--
Hugo Salgado
NIC Chile - .CL

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