Re: [apps-discuss] draft-ietf-weirds-bootstrap-00 and our lawn -- feedback?

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>domain: example.com
>    rel: domainlookup    href-template: http://example.com/lookup/{domain}
>
>I'm very curious to hear what other APPS folks think about this

RDAP is a new design.  There are no existing RDAP servers other than a
few prototypes run by people on the WEIRDS list.  There's nothing to
be backward compatible with.  

RDAP is intended as a replacement for WHOIS, to answer the same
questions that people ask now using WHOIS, e.g. information about
domain names, IP addresses, ASNs, and a few other things.  The
questions that people ask with WHOIS haven't changed materially in 20
years, and I see no reason to expect them to change in the future.

Small RDAP servers will likely adapt the RDAP prototype being funded
by ICANN.  Large RDAP servers will be written by a handful of large
registries, all of which are represented on the WEIRDS list and can
speak for themselves, but I can't remember any of them showing notable
enthusiasm for templates.

In this particular application, I really can't see any benefit to
templates other than the ability to be gratuitously different just to
prove that you can.

R's,
John