[33235] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: fwd ppml: ARIN asking about SWIP procedures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Jan 4 16:18:25 2001
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
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To: ehall@ehsco.com (Eric A. Hall)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 20:50:09 +0000 (UCT)
Cc: mark-list@mentovai.com (Mark Mentovai), ppml@arin.net,
bet@rahul.net (Bennett Todd), nanog@merit.edu, ginny@arin.net
In-Reply-To: <3A54D4A6.89F845D8@ehsco.com> from "Eric A. Hall" at Jan 04, 2001 11:53:10 AM
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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.
>
> 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.
>
> Note that putting the data into LDAP doesn't preclude WHOIS clients from
> talking to a WHOIS server which proxies the LDAP data.
>
> --
> Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
> Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
LDAP might just have a chance. But it looks alot like the
x500 stuff from the last decade. I remain unconvinced.
--bill
