Do you want my paragraph also, or just Scott's? Barry On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 4:16 PM John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Scott, > > That is precisely the sort of statement / additional sentences I > was looking for. Thanks. > > Barry, if you could add Scott's paragraph, I think all of the > requirements (as well as my personal aesthetic sense) would be > satisfied and we would avoid setting any precedents of moving > documents to Internet Standard with handwaving, rather than > specifics, about deployment. > > thanks again, > john > > > --On Friday, February 19, 2021 20:45 +0000 "Hollenbeck, Scott" > <shollenbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> > >> For example, if it is in wide use in the address registries, > >> let's say that. If it is the actual back end for the > >> web-based interfaces for a significant number of TLD > >> registries, let's say that (even if you have to weight > >> "number of TLD registries by > >> number of registrants to make that true)? If, when I use the > >> Whois protocol to access information in those registry > >> databases, I'm really using a front-end shim over RDAP, say > >> that too. > >> > >> I suspect all of those things may be true but, again, I don't > >> have the data. Scott and Andy certainly should (in a more > >> ideal world, the information would even be in the > >> implementation report0, so this should be matter or a > >> sentence or three, not a research project. > > > > [SAH] A proposal for a few more sentences: > > > > RDAP is fully deployed and operational at all five Regional > > Address Registries. RDAP implementation and operation is a > > contractual requirement for all ICANN-accredited domain name > > registries and 2,370 registrars. The IANA "Bootstrap Service > > Registry for Domain Name Space" describes 820 unique RDAP base > > URLs that are are associated with several thousand generic > > top-level and country code domain name RDAP servers that are > > operated by domain name registries. > > -- last-call mailing list last-call@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/last-call