[TSG-Access-RD] Bulk Data, Bulk Query, WhoWas and Charter scope

[Hollenbeck, Scott]

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> From: TSG-Access-RD <tsg-access-rd-bounces at icann.org> On Behalf Of
> Andrew Newton
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 2:29 PM
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> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [TSG-Access-RD] Bulk Data, Bulk Query, WhoWas and
> Charter scope
>
> As part of today's charter discussion, a couple of concepts were brought
> forward with respect to RDAP as practiced with Whois.
>
> o Bulk Data (Bulk Whois) - the ability to obtain a large number of
> registrations, if not all registrations. For example, several RIRs make available
> their entire registration set and this is often referred to as Bulk Whois,
> though in general it does not use the Whois protocol.
>
> o Bulk Query - the ability to submit many queries at one time, and obtain the
> answers to those queries. In practice, this is accomplished today with clients
> issuing single queries to obtain the desired data set.
>
> o WhoWas - a service which provides historical registration data. The term
> "WhoWas" is a play on the "Whois" name. Today, some of the RIRs provide
> this service though not using the Whois protocol.
>
> In my opinion, providing Bulk Data using RDAP is possible with an extension
> that falls within the bounds of RFC 7480 (some of us in the numbers
> community have discussed it informally). That said, I do not think bulk data or
> bulk whois should fall within the scope of this group.
>
> It is also my opinion that supporting bulk queries in a means other than the
> current practice would require an extension to RDAP that would be
> "unnatural". I do not believe bulk queries should fall within the scope of this
> group.
>
> Finally, WhoWas can be accomplished with an RDAP extension (APNIC has
> such a prototype available and it if very neat). But again, I do not believe
> WhoWas should fall within the scope of this group.

+1 to everything above.

Scott