[Rt4-whois] RESTful Web Service for Internet Name and Address Directory Services (successor to Whois)

[Denise Michel]

Dear Team Members,

Dave Piscitello, Andy Newton, Steve Sheng, and Benedetto Fiorelli published
an article on RESTful at USENIX.ORG that we thought might interest you.

A RESTful Web Service for Internet Name and Address Directory Services
http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2011-10/openpdfs/Newton.pdf


Dave's executive summary is posted at:


A RESTful Web Service for Domain Name and IP Directory Services
http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2011/10/a-restful-web-service-for-domain-name-and-ip-directory-services.html

And here's some additional background, courtesy of Dave.

Inspired by the Whois-RWS service now in production at the American Registry
for Internet Numbers (ARIN), staff at ICANN began experimenting with
Representational State Transfer-based (REST) Web services for domain name
registration data (a.k.a., "Whois data"), as did engineers at the RIPE
Network Coordination Centre. ICANN, ARIN, and RIPE staff recently published
an article in USENIX ;login to share their findings from this
experimentation. The article describes three implementations in sufficient
detail to illustrate the benefits and corroborate their findings.
Specifically, through these implementations, ICANN, ARIN, and RIPE staff
demonstrate that REST-based directory services are able to "support
internationalized registration data (and, generally, structured and typed
data), provide unambiguous signaling, and improve error reporting . We are
able to leverage existing client and server infrastructures and provide
security services, including transport confidentiality and integrity
checking, authentication, and data filtering, in an extensible manner, again
with the prospect of being able to leverage implementations and Web
infrastructure that makes use of security services today.

Regards,
Denise

Denise Michel
ICANN
Advisor to the President & CEO
denise.michel at icann.org
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