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<FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>FYI. Comments from Hugo Salgado regarding the Technical Evolution of the Whois Service document. We welcome any additional comments. <BR>
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Any thoughts / responses to Hugo’s comment? <BR>
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Warm regards, <BR>
Steve<BR>
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From: Hugo Salgado <<a href="hsalgado@nic.cl">hsalgado@nic.cl</a>><BR>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:16:46 -0800<BR>
To: Francisco Arias <<a href="francisco.arias@icann.org">francisco.arias@icann.org</a>><BR>
Subject: Comments on Technical Evolution of the Whois Service<BR>
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Dear Francisco.<BR>
I'd like to comment the "Technical Evolution of the Whois Service<BR>
Preliminary Draft, 15 November 2010" document that you presented<BR>
in 39th ICANN's meeting, that I obtained through this link:<BR>
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<<a href="http://cartagena39.icann.org/meetings/cartagena2010/presentation-tech-evolu">http://cartagena39.icann.org/meetings/cartagena2010/presentation-tech-evolu</a><BR>
tion-whois-service-15nov10-en.pdf><BR>
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1. I think there's a fourth point in the 3 deficiencies of the WHOIS<BR>
protocol that are enumerated in page 3, under "Extending the existing<BR>
WHOIS protocol:" subtitle. That's the "Referrals" item. Even when is<BR>
mentioned in the RWhois description and as a implicit benefit of the<BR>
HTTP protocol, I believe is of great importance and should be one of<BR>
the key requirement of an improved whois, whatever solution will be.<BR>
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2. IMHO there's a chance of another option for improving whois: create a<BR>
new "application-transport" layer in IRIS (such as BEEP and LWZ) that<BR>
uses HTTP. In that way you benefit from the data standarization of<BR>
IRIS (request/response format, schemas, entities) and the work of<BR>
the IETF, and you gain all the benefits of using RWS with the<BR>
existing web infrastructure and expertise. We can ask for guidance<BR>
of the IRIS authors and write a draft, and maybe reopen the CRISP<BR>
WG in the IETF.<BR>
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My 2 cents.<BR>
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Saludos y un feliz año 2011!<BR>
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--<BR>
Hugo Salgado<BR>
NIC Chile - .CL<BR>
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