RE: vendor registry lookup service

"Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca@avaya.com> Mon, 27 July 2009 17:10 UTC

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Subject: RE: vendor registry lookup service
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:10:09 +0200
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From: "Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca@avaya.com>
To: Marc Blanchet <marc.blanchet@viagenie.ca>, apps-discuss@ietf.org, vcarddav@ietf.org
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Marc,

The name that is associated with a PEN is the name on the form submitted
to IANA at the moment of the request. Nothing less, nothing more. 

Dan
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: apps-discuss-bounces@ietf.org 
> [mailto:apps-discuss-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Marc Blanchet
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 6:05 PM
> To: apps-discuss@ietf.org; vcarddav@ietf.org
> Subject: vendor registry lookup service
> 
> Hi,
>  there are some discussions about creating/extending a vendor 
> name space registry for applications protocols (see 
> http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/75/slides/apparea-3.pdf as 
> presented at apps-area meeting this morning).
> 
> I made the point at the mike that we already have a vendor 
> registry: the private enterprise numbers (PEN), which 
> contains 35K entries, on a first come first serve manner, and 
> automated by IANA. On the contrary, the proposal is based on 
> the acap registry which contains about a dozen entries.
> 
> why should we reinvent another registry with almost same data?
> 
> One comment was made about the fact that the PEN are made of 
> digits, therefore not user-friendly to be shown to the 
> end-user. While I don't think this is a real issue and can be 
> managed differently, I'm proposing a simple solution: a 
> lookup service mapping PEN to vendor name, for user display.
> 
> Thereby, this mail announces a PEN lookup service to map the 
> PEN to the vendor name. This is implemented as a DNS TXT 
> record under the enterprise-numbers.org domain name. It is 
> available now.
> 
> For example:
> 
> dig 31474.enterprise-numbers.org TXT
> ...
> 31474.enterprise-numbers.org. 86400 IN	TXT	"Viagenie inc."
> 
> 
> dig 5842.enterprise-numbers.org TXT
> ...
> 5842.enterprise-numbers.org. 86400 IN	TXT	"Cisco Systems"
> 
> Regards, Marc.
> 
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