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

[Arnt Gulbrandsen <[e-mail]>]

I don't understand this.

AFAICT, IANA is serving basically a giant discovery response pointing to 
lookup URLs. Why would the IANA registry have to contain only foo/rdap/ip 
for IPv4 lookups? I don't see why the lookups have to be constrained.

To look up AS31337, I retrieve the discovery response, usually from cache, 
and look up the right <link rel> in the xml. Then I ask that URL. Sounds 
good.

There are details I don't like. The draft indicates that I should take the 
URL I found in the IANA thing, append / and then my argument. Why isn't the 
slash already on the URL I found? And what escaping rules apply to my 
argument?

Arnt