[Rt4-whois] Fwd: ICANN News Alert -- Open-Source Reference Implementation of a Domain Name RESTful Whois Server – Request for Proposals

[Kathy Kleiman]

FYI -- I think this announcement runs to one of our recommendations -- 
having ICANN clearly work across communities, and widely bring in 
involvement on key Whois technical issues.  What do others think?
Best,
Kathy

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Subject: 	ICANN News Alert -- Open-Source Reference Implementation of a 
Domain Name RESTful Whois Server – Request for Proposals
Date: 	Thu, 17 May 2012 11:24:08 -0400
From: 	ICANN News Alert <communications at icann.org>
To: 	<kathy at kathykleiman.com>



ICANN <http://www.icann.org/>


    News Alert

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-16may12-en.htm

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    Open-Source Reference Implementation of a Domain Name RESTful Whois
    Server – Request for Proposals

16 May 2012

ICANN is issuing today a Request for Proposal 
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/rfps/restful-whois-16may12-en.pdf> [PDF, 
183 KB] to identify a provider capable of providing an open source 
reference implementation of a Domain Name RESTful Whois server.

On 15 May 2012, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) chartered a 
new working group 
<http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/weirds/current/msg01069.html> to 
standardize a RESTful-based Registration Data Access Protocol. In order 
to facilitate the evaluation and adoption of the replacement protocol 
for domain registries and registrars, ICANN is seeking proposals for an 
open source reference implementation.

Whois services, and their effectiveness in the case of Internationalized 
registration data, are important issues for ICANN. ICANN has been 
working to make advances in this area, appreciating the technical 
community's past and present contributions, and committed to 
collaborating with the technical and policy community to improve the 
Whois service.

Beginning in 2002, ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee 
(SSAC) published various advisories describing the needs for improvement 
related to the Whois protocol, service and data schema, most recently 
SAC 051 <http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents/sac-051-en.pdf> 
[PDF, 237 KB]: SSAC Report on Domain Name Whois Terminology and 
Structure. SAC 051 summarizes the previous advisories, and among other 
things, recommends that the ICANN community evaluate and adopt a 
replacement protocol that supports the query and display of 
Internationalized registration data as well as addressing the relevant 
recommendations in past SSAC advisories on this topic.

Respondents are requested to respond to this RFP by replying to: 
rws-opensource at icann.org <mailto:rws-opensource at icann.org>. The period 
to submit questions about the RFP will close on 5 June 2012. ICANN will 
provide answers to all questions submitted to all respondents by 7 June 
2012. The final response to the RFP is due on 15 June 2012.



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