To:
George Belotsky <george@register.com>
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ietf-provreg@cafax.se
From:
Olivier Guillard / AFNIC <guillard@nic.fr>
Date:
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:13:14 +0100
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Re: Merging RRP and Whois
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