Some ideas on the future direction of the RIPE TLD-WG
On Monday, 13 Sep 1999, "Kurt Jaeger" writes: Hello Kurt
The RIPE TLD-WG might try to get a standards discussion started for all technical interfaces into DNS registration:
- whois query interface - template syntax - syntax checks on fields - Validity checks - Change/Modify interface
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 ?
- 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 ? Marcel -------- Logged at Mon Sep 13 16:26:08 CEST 1999 ---------
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 ---------
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