Hi!
The RIPE TLD-WG might try to get a standards discussion started for all technical interfaces into DNS registration: [...] in short, for every aspect required to automate as many tasks as possible for domain delegation.
Since IMO all TLD's in the RIPE area use RIPE WHOIS your proposal makes sense. I do not fully understand these issues:
- syntax checks on fields - Validity checks
Do you mean checks implemented in WHOIS or checks implemented by the interface offered by the registry to you to enter WHOIS information ?
As I said (quote): "in short, for every aspect required to automate as many tasks as possible for domain delegation." This includes - template syntax - syntax checks on fields which also includes the syntax checked by the interface offered by the registry.
- Change/Modify interface
What interface ? WHOIS uses an ASCII text based simple query mechanism to communicate with. See RFC-954. Where ist the interface here ? Are you suggesting one ?
I can modify .ch domains using the whois protocol ? That's news to me ? Currently, each registry has its own "domain registration/modify" interface (some web-based, some mail based, maybe some are already database based). Soon, PGP or GNU-PG as means for authentication will come into play. So, it's some to standardize, otherwise the RIPE members will have to "write code back and forth". -- MfG/Best regards, Kurt Jaeger 21 years to go ! LF.net GmbH pi at LF.net Oberon.net GmbH pi at oberon.net Vor dem Lauch 23 fon +49 711 90074-23 Friedrich-Ebert-Str.1 D-70567 Stuttgart fax +49 711 7289041 40210 Duesseldorf fon +49 211 179253-11 For Redmond: "nuke the site from orbit -- it's the only way to be sure." -------- Logged at Mon Sep 13 16:57:54 CEST 1999 ---------