[Rt4-whois] SSAC recommendations regarding terminology

[Sarmad Hussain]

Agreed.  DNRD/DNRD-AP/DNRD-DS do address different aspects, which should be
disambiguated in writing.

Regards,
Sarmad

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: rt4-whois-bounces at icann.org [mailto:rt4-whois-bounces at icann.org]
>>On Behalf Of Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet
>>Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 3:42 AM
>>To: Emily Taylor
>>Cc: rt4-whois at icann.org
>>Subject: Re: [Rt4-whois] SSAC recommendations regarding terminology
>>
>>Emily Taylor wrote:
>>> Hi guys
>>>
>>> Thanks for absorbing the SSAC document.  SSAC have made a conscious
>>effort
>>> to include us in their draft-report loop in order to help us with our
>>work,
>>> which is very good of them.
>>>
>>> For the benefit of members of the team who may be sinking under the
>>load of
>>> documents to be read, would you mind reproducing the terms that you
>>think we
>>> should adopt (in the body of an e-mail),
>>
>>Sure, here we go, although a bit belated, sorry.
>>
>>
>>In Section 2. Taxonomy of Trms, on page 5 of the SSAC document
>>	https://community.icann.org/display/whoisreviewprivate/SSAC+-
>>+WHOIS+Advisory
>>the authors set out to introduce 3 terms and abbreviations, see below.
>>[For the full text please refer to the document]
>>
>><quote>
>>When one speaks about WHOIS, it is often unclear which part of the
>>system he/she
>>is referring to. To avoid confusion, SSAC proposes the following terms
>>to better
>>distinguish the components of the WHOIS system:
>></quote>
>>
>>	btw, this text c|should be copied verbatim to a prominent place
>>in our
>>	document and/or referred to.
>>
>>1) Domain Name Registration Data (DNRD) - refers to the information
>>that registrants
>>   provide when registering a domain name and that registrars or
>>registries collect.
>>   Some of this information is made available to the public. [...]
>>
>>2) Domain Name Registration Data Access Protocol (DNRD-AP) - refers to
>>the elements
>>   of a (standard) communications exchange - queries and responses -
>>that make
>>   access to registration data possible. For example, the WHOIS
>>protocol (RFC 3912)
>>   and HTTP (RFC 2616 and its updates) are commonly used to provide
>>public access to DNRD.
>>
>>3) Domain Name Registration Data Directory Service (DNRD-DS) - refers
>>to the service(s)
>>   offered by registries and registrars to provide access to
>>(potentially a subset of)
>>   the Domain Name Registration Data. [...]
>>
>>> and any _brief_ reasoning which might assist comprehension.
>>
>>I think adopting these 3 terms is fully in line with all the
>>discussions and
>>interactions we had so far, and will help in making it obvious to the
>>reader
>>which aspect we are talking about.
>>
>>We may opt to be a tad sloppy and omit the "Domain Name" prefix, where
>>it is
>>obvious from context (most of the time), but stick to the abbreviations
>>
>>- DNRD    for the Registration Data itself,
>>- DNRD-AP for the Access Protocol, and
>>- DNRD-DS for the Directory Service.
>>
>>
>>In a subsequent section, SSAC develops some additional terms and
>>abbreviations,
>>like
>>- DRNDe for "individual elements in DNRD",
>>- "internationalised" and "localised" DNRD and
>>- DNRD-DSD to denote a subset of DNRD that is made available by the
>>DNRD-DS
>>
>>While I do agree, there is technical merit in defining this stuff, I
>>believe
>>that the Hamming Distance[1] is too small for the average reader to be
>>useful.
>>If your head is spinning now with Ds, Rs, Ns and Ds - you are in good
>>company :-)
>>
>>Sticking to the 3 should be good enough!
>>
>>> Much appreciated,
>>
>>You are welcome!
>>
>>> Emily
>>
>>Hope this has been useful, cheers,
>>Wilfried.
>>
>>[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance
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