[tech-whois] SF session details

[Andy Newton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-whois-bounces at icann.org [mailto:tech-whois-
> bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Jay Daley
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 3:09 PM
> To: Werner Staub
> Cc: tech-whois at icann.org
> Subject: Re: [tech-whois] SF session details
> 
> 
> I appreciate the sentiment but would counter that IRIS was a failure not a
> success because it was intended to deliver on a set of requirements that
> were never agreed by the community.  I would not want us to repeat that
> mistake.
> 
> To be clear, I am not saying that IRIS is bad technology, just that it introduced
> a new set of features hardly anybody wanted to implement.

Jay,

That's an interesting observation. Maybe it would be worth the time to run a survey and asked the interested parties what technical and non-technical reasons they have for not wanting certain protocol features such as extensibility, support for IDNs and internationalization in general, referrals, and standard queries and responses.

-andy