[registrars] WHOIS access tiers

[Chris Ambler]

Because we, and I presume many other registrars, put a lot of time into
the maintenance of systems to properly parse WHOIS information from each
and every different kind of system out there, when gathering the data
for transfers.

If, on the other hand, we all agreed to speak IRIS (dreg, for example),
gathering contact information for transfers would be much easier and
reduce maintenance costs every time a registrar changes their output
format.

Christopher

-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Rader [mailto:ross at tucows.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:57 AM
To: Chris Ambler
Cc: Bruce Tonkin; registrars at gnso.icann.org
Subject: Re: [registrars] WHOIS access tiers

I don't mind IRIS as a technology, but I don't see the value in making 
an investment in a technology "just because". There's no business or 
customer value here, so I'm kind of stuck trying to justify why any 
registrar or registry would want to make the investment.

Chris Ambler wrote:
> I have been advocating this for a couple years now. 
> 
> Christopher
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org
> [mailto:owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 5:30 PM
> To: registrars at gnso.icann.org
> Subject: [registrars] WHOIS access tiers
> 
> - ideally replace port-43 WHOIS with IRIS (RFC3981) for this purpose.
> Web Based access also possible but requires authentication and
possibly
> human readable text to be entered.
> 
>