fwd ppml: ARIN asking about SWIP procedures

Thu Jan 4 20:08:10 UTC 2001

said ldap server should be publicly accessible....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall at ehsco.com>
To: <bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com>
Cc: "Mark Mentovai" <mark-list at mentovai.com>; <ppml at arin.net>; "Bennett Todd" <bet at rahul.net>; <nanog at merit.edu>; <ginny at arin.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: fwd ppml: ARIN asking about SWIP procedures

> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Eric A. Hall                                        http://www.ehsco.com/
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