I was assuming both. Yours talks about Whois and its
replacement; Scott's push a much more solid foundation under why
it is sensible to move ahead with RDAP.
john
--On Friday, February 19, 2021 17:15 -0500 Barry Leiba
<barryleiba@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>>
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