vendor registry lookup service
Marc Blanchet <marc.blanchet@viagenie.ca> Mon, 27 July 2009 15:05 UTC
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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. -- ========= IPv6 book: Migrating to IPv6, Wiley. http://www.ipv6book.ca Stun/Turn server for VoIP NAT-FW traversal: http://numb.viagenie.ca DTN news service: http://reeves.viagenie.ca
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