[33232] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: fwd ppml: ARIN asking about SWIP procedures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dana Hudes)
Thu Jan 4 15:11:50 2001
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From: "Dana Hudes" <dhudes@hudes.org>
To: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>, <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com>
Cc: "Mark Mentovai" <mark-list@mentovai.com>, <ppml@arin.net>,
"Bennett Todd" <bet@rahul.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>, <ginny@arin.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:08:10 -0500
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said ldap server should be publicly accessible....
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From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com>
Cc: "Mark Mentovai" <mark-list@mentovai.com>; <ppml@arin.net>; "Bennett =
Todd" <bet@rahul.net>; <nanog@merit.edu>; <ginny@arin.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: fwd ppml: ARIN asking about SWIP procedures
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>=20
> bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> >=20
> > > Finally, the ability to submit assignment and allocation =
information
> > > via rwhois seems like a license for inconsistency. Rwhois was a
> > > great idea that never took off. It would be interesting if this
> > > information could be provided by splintering off a new DNS class
> > > (or at least some new RR types.) Has anyone ever considered this?
> > >
> > > Mark
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> > That said, I'll posit that the adoption rate of new DNS code is =
fairly
> > slow (based on 3 years of study) and so even if some goofy new class =
or
> > RR type is promoted, it would not get deployed anytime soon.
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> All of this stuff (global WHOIS included) really needs to go into =
LDAP,
> using standardized schemas for the relevant data. Obviously the schema =
is
> job #1. All of the [g/cc]TLD databases and numbering authoritites =
really
> should have made this a collective priority a couple of years ago.
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> Note that putting the data into LDAP doesn't preclude WHOIS clients =
from
> talking to a WHOIS server which proxies the LDAP data.
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> --=20
> Eric A. Hall =
http://www.ehsco.com/
> Internet Core Protocols =
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
