To:
Olivier Guillard / AFNIC <guillard@nic.fr>
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ietf-provreg@cafax.se
From:
George Belotsky <george@register.com>
Date:
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:35:40 -0500
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<20010123191314.A17128@james.nic.fr>; from guillard@nic.fr on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 07:13:14PM +0100
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Subject:
Re: Merging RRP and Whois
Oliver: Just to make things clear, nobody is proposing to unify the DNS and Whois. The discussion here is about unifying the RRP and Whois. George. On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 07:13:14PM +0100, Olivier Guillard / AFNIC wrote: > > Hi, > > DNS is designed to reference an information > Whois is designed to provide an information > > It is not a good idea to think about unifying > two inconsistent issues. > > Regards, > > Olivier > > le 22 Jan, George Belotsky a écrit : > > Hello, All. > > > > I have recently posted the information below to the Whois list. > > > > The RRP group has made quite a bit of progress on a generic > > protocol for Registry-Registrar communication. > > > > It would save a lot of duplicated effort if the Whois and RRP > > protocols could be merged into a single standard. Registries, > > Registrars, and end users would then have to contend with a single > > protocol, instead of two diverging ones. > > > > At the most fundamental level, both Whois and RRP provide a view into > > the the repository of information associated with a domain name. A > > sufficiently rich protocol would allow for these views to be finely > > adjusted. In addition, it would be possible for other views to > > emerge, as necessity dictates. > > > > Implementation effort, number of bugs, testing and troubleshooting > > should all be positively affected by having only a single protocol to > > deal with. This would surely benefit everyone. > > > > George. > > > > > > ----------------------------- > > George Belotsky > > Senior Software Architect > > Register.com, inc. > > george@register.com > > 212-798-9127 (phone) > > 212-798-9876 (fax) > > -- > Olivier Guillard > --- > || A.F.N.I.C. > || http://www.nic.fr -- ----------------------------- George Belotsky Senior Software Architect Register.com, inc. george@register.com 212-798-9127 (phone) 212-798-9876 (fax)