Re: [regext] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-regext-rdap-object-tag-04: (with COMMENT)

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <[e-mail]>]

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> draft-ietf-regext-rdap-object-tag-04: No Objection
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> I'm not sure why anyone would do this, but I'll ask anyway: is there no
> concern about someone maliciously registering an identifier against an
> existing RDAP URL, given that the registry is specified to be FCFS? Let's
> say I have a grudge against MyLocalRIR and I go register "fubar" as the
> service provider name together with an existing mylocalrir.org RDAP URL.
> This maybe has little practical effect but surely MyLocalRIR would not be
> too happy with it.

Thanks for the review, Alyssa. Yes, this is possible. We could specify another registration policy; perhaps expert review? Even with that policy, though, the expert would have to be able to distinguish a "legitimate" operator from a fake, and that wouldn't always be an easy task and there would still be a risk of a fake getting through. Perhaps we could add text to advice IANA that fakes are possible and IANA should be able to respond to a change request from a "legitimate" operator with assistance from an expert reviewer. Another possibility could be FCFS with email contact information provided so that IANA can attempt to verify the request. Looking at RFC 82126 again, I see that "a minimal amount of clerical information" is required, so adding contact information would be a good change.

Scott