[registrars] WHOIS access tiers

[Ross Rader]

I don't know about the rest of you, but we don't put a lot of time into 
the maintenance of systems to properly parse whois. in fact, I can't 
remember the last time this came up as an issue over here. Certainly not 
recently enough, or in high enough volume to ditch our port 43 
infrastructure and adopt something new.

Chris Ambler wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
> 
>