Re: [regext] RDAP questions

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <[e-mail]>]

Hi there,

Another question

1) country (full name / name) versus country codes.

In https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7483#section-3 you suggest to use
alpha-2 country codes

Yet autnum and network talk about
---8<---
 o  country -- a string containing the name of the two-character
      country code of the autnum
---8<---

where "the name" makes me think i should use the full name?
Should that read
---8<---
 o  country -- a string containing the two-character
      country code of the autnum
---8<---

And then there is jCard which seemingly attempts to trick me into
using the full country name ? Lovely.

2) entity handles

At least for DNRs the mixture of registrars and contacts seems to be a
bit unfortunate at first glance.
For handles (in the DNR / RFC5733 sense) could conflict between
registrars and contacts. Furthermore there is no (apparent) way to
output a ROID which would make it easier to distinguish these two,
disregarding the role of course.
I could work around this by requiring a -ROIDSFX for contacts and none
for registrars, for example.

So i think my question is how to respond to a non-search query for an
ambiguous entity?

TIA and cheers,