From: Dana Hudes (no email)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 15:08:10 EST
said ldap server should be publicly accessible....
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From: "Eric A. Hall" <>
To: <>
Cc: "Mark Mentovai" <>; <>; "Bennett Todd" <>; <>; <>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: fwd ppml: ARIN asking about SWIP procedures
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> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
>
> > 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/
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