fwd ppml: ARIN asking about SWIP procedures

Eric A. Hall ehall at ehsco.com
Thu Jan 4 19:53:10 UTC 2001



bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com 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.

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