[tech-whois] SF session details

[Jay Daley]

Hi Andy

On 5/03/2011, at 9:51 AM, Andy Newton wrote:

>> -----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.

Asking it that way is a loaded question as I'm sure you know.  The proper question is: Do you want any of these features and do you want them in the WHOIS service or another directory service.

If you wanted to follow that path then another protocol should only be considered if the answers are that enough people want new features in the WHOIS service which the current WHOIS protocol cannot supply, or enough people want a new service.

cheers
Jay

> 
> -andy


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