[tech-whois] A follow up session in San Francisco?

[Francisco Obispo]

Well, I don't really think we're talking about a protocol replacement in the hard sense of words.

WHOIS is not a critical Internet Protocol, and the fact that a new solution is found, is not going to push everyone for adoption, nor is going cause Internet instability.

There are registries that have significant more problems than just their whois service, most of which have implement it (if they have) over http, using a web form, in best case scenario. 

And there is (of course) the high end registries who are already moving away from whois and implementing using the RESTful guidelines. 

I believe most of us who are participating in this group are aware that the current WHOIS protocol does not fit the current Internet reality (whatever that is, including character encoding issues, etc.). We can either: 

1) do nothing about it; or

2) or as a community, start generating an action plan, that may involve IETF participation (maybe funded by ICANN), so that a new (if necessary) protocol is to be defined, promote its adoption in the different fora meetings, etc., and  writing a reference implementation.

That micro plan already includes 3 action items, that could be achieved by this group... Lets focus now on the generation of a solution

Best regards.





On Mar 7, 2011, at 4:34 AM, Dave Piscitello wrote:

> Saying that one is going to replace a protocol is often an unfortunate
> choice of words, especially in an environment where flag day events are not
> desirable. 

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