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

[Jody Kolker]

+1 on these points as well.

Thanks,
Jody Kolker


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From: TSG-Access-RD <tsg-access-rd-bounces at icann.org> On Behalf Of Hollenbeck, Scott via TSG-Access-RD
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Subject: Re: [TSG-Access-RD] Bulk Data, Bulk Query, WhoWas and Charter scope

> -----Original Message-----
> From: TSG-Access-RD <tsg-access-rd-bounces at icann.org> On Behalf Of 
> Andrew Newton
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 2:29 PM
> To: tsg-access-rd at icann.org
> 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