Re: [regext] RDAP questions

[Andy Newton <[e-mail]>]

On Aug 3, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Brian Mountford <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:

I have a couple questions about RDAP RFC 7483.
RFC 7483 4.7. Port 43 WHOIS Server
For registries such as ourselves, is this supposed to be the registrar’s server, or ours? I would have thought the registrar’s since WHOIS AWIP is that way. But the registrar’s WHOIS is a URL, whereas this is explicitly not so.


Somebody else will have to answer as to which whois server this is suppose to reference (I think registrar). But there is no whois URI scheme, which is why that is explicitly not a URI.
RFC 7483 5.1. The Entity Object Class
The RFC indicates that among the items of information we should return for an entity is its role (admin, tech, billing, registrar, etc.). But contacts don’t necessarily have a single role. The same contact could have more than one role in more than one domain. In our database, the role tag is associated with the mapping of the domain to the contact, not with the contact itself. So it’s not clear how we can provide this information for contacts found using a direct search. For contacts displayed as part of a domain search, or for registrars, it’s not a problem.

You have it exactly correct. If somebody were to lookup a contact directly, there is no context in which to have a role and therefore the “roles” array should not be present.

-andy