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- Referral Whois BOF (RWHOIS)
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- Reported by Mark Kosters/InterNIC and Stan Borinski/InterNIC
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- Agenda
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- o Introduction
- o Development Status
- - Secondaries
- - On-line Editing
- o Deployment Issues
- - Minimal Attribute Sets
- - Commonality of Attributes
- o RWhois Specification Changes
- o Become a Working Group
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- Summary
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- Scott Williamson presented an introduction on the main points of the
- RWhois protocol with hierarchical examples on how a registry can
- delegate information to sub-registries for network, domain, and contact
- information. He then went on to discuss the current InterNIC
- Registration Services development status on the RWhois server and our
- current pushes -- namely the secondary and on-line editing capabilities.
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- Discussion ensued on the current state of the centrally maintained
- server, the performance, and the configuration leading up to how RWhois
- would be able to assume that load. It was felt by the InterNIC
- Registration Services that RWhois will be able to handle the load since
- RWhois allows for secondary servers to distribute the query load. Scott
- Williamson proposed that minimally APNIC and RIPE house secondary
- servers.
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- There were suggestions of various supplemental enhancements to the
- client as in auto-configuration for the root server, and reducing the
- functionality of the server by transferring the display capability of
- the server to the client. It was also agreed to drop the requirement
- that a RWhois server support boolean operations from the next version of
- the specification.
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- In order for RWhois to perform correctly, a minimal common attribute set
- for each object needs to be defined for the navigational elements.
- There was consensus within the group that the rwhois list should be used
- and quickly come to closure.
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- At the conclusion, it was agreed that RWhois should become a working
- group in order to facilitate the operational deployment of RWhois within
- the Internet community.
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- Action Items
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- Scott Williamson and Mark Kosters will formulate a charter and submit it
- to the Operational Requirements Area Directors for review.
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