[registrars] .net thick/thin discussion

[Jens Wagner]

Larry Erlich schrieb:

>Jens Wagner wrote:
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>>This should be proposed as an EPP extension anyway. At least one line of
>>text per domain name should be usable for such purposes.
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>There would have to be at least two lines of text
>per domain. One for the registrar with full contact
>information and one for the reseller. But I am still in favor
>of a thin model. Keep in mind that our whole system is setup
>as a thick model and I would rather not have to have the
>expense of re-writing our whole system to accomodate this change.
>I don't think you can assume that this is trivial for many
>registrars. This will be expensive. 
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How do you handle .org, .biz and .info right now? They are thick, too.

>>This is up to the registry. However there should be a webinterface that
>>shows all informations 'pretty-printed'.
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>Doesn't handle the situation where another entity wants to query
>port 43 to display the information without creating their
>own routine to "pretty-print" the info. In other words it will
>only be nicely human readable if viewed through the registry
>web interface but not through another entities web interface.
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Usually every registrar has its own "pritty-print" routines right now.
How do you display .com/.net whois data of other registrars, or whois 
data for .biz/.info domains?

  -  jens