[62704] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign vs ICANN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william@elan.net)
Sun Sep 21 05:06:24 2003
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 23:28:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: william@elan.net
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3F6D5FAF.402@he.iki.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Petri Helenius wrote:
> > The whois database is not a replacement for a DNS query.
>
> I´m sure Verisign will come up with a XML Schema for whois information soon.
Sooner then you think!
Yesterday, the results of IETF CRISP WG "call for consensus" was announced
and the result is in fact IRIS - XML based whois protocol. Introduced by
- you guessed it - Verisign!
More info on this and draft protocol specs are at
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/crisp-charter.html
P.S. Note that I'm not saying anything bad about actual protocol specs
creator - Andrew Newton (from Verisign), who did a great job with IRIS
drafts. Both he and Eric Hall worked very hard on the draft specifications
for competing IRIS (xml based) and FIRS (ldap based) whois protocol specs.
I did vote for FIRS myself, but it had nothing to do with who works for
which company and its a hard choice since both specifications are good
for future whois.
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william@elan.net
