Verisign vs ICANN
william at elan.net
william at elan.net
Sun Sep 21 06:28:38 UTC 2003
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 at elan.net
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