The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Registration Data Access Protocol Query Format' (draft-ietf-weirds-rdap-query-18.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Web Extensible Internet Registration Data Service Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Pete Resnick and Barry Leiba. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-weirds-rdap-query/ Technical Summary This document describes uniform patterns to construct HTTP URLs that may be used to retrieve registration information from registries (including both Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and Domain Name Registries (DNRs)) using "RESTful" web access patterns. These uniform patterns define the query syntax for the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP). Working Group Summary This document received a good amount of the working group's attention throughout the life of the working group, and has also received some commentary from outside the working group. It has solid consensus. Document Quality This document, along with the bootstrap document and the JSON response document, form the core of the RDAP protocol. Notably, some of the external reviews included people heavily involved in the HTTP community (Mark Nottingham, Julian Reschke, discussing URI design) and lengthy discussion of such things as internationalized domain names (Andrew Sullivan, John Klensin). Personnel Murray Kucherawy is the document shepherd. Pete Resnick is the responsible Area Director.
