Re: [regext] Alexey Melnikov's Discuss on draft-ietf-regext-rdap-object-tag-04: (with DISCUSS)

[Andy Newton <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 17:34 +0100, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018, at 5:24 PM, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>
> > > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2018 12:21 PM
> > > To: Hollenbeck, Scott <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
> > > Cc: [e-mail]; Gould, James
> > > <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Alexey Melnikov's Discuss on draft-ietf-
> > > regext-
> > > rdap-object-tag-04: (with DISCUSS)
> > > 
> > > Hi Scott,
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018, at 1:33 PM, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > >  (snip)
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > This is a fine document, but I have one possible issue that I
> > > > > would
> > > > > like to quickly discuss before recommending approval of this
> > > > > document:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Looking at the example in Section 3:
> > > > > 
> > > > >    {
> > > > >      "version": "1.0",
> > > > >      "publication": "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ",
> > > > >      "description": "RDAP service provider bootstrap values",
> > > > >      "services": [
> > > > >        [
> > > > >          ["YYYY"],
> > > > > 
> > > > > Values like YYYY are not distinguishable from TLD values
> > > > > registered
> > > > > in <https://www.iana.org/assignments/rdap-dns/rdap-dns.xhtml>
> > > > > . All
> > > > > numeric values (ASNs or ranges of ASNs), as well as IPv4/IPv6
> > > > > addresses are syntactically distinguishable from TLDs, but
> > > > > values
> > > > > registered in this document are not. Is this a problem? My
> > > > > concern
> > > > > is about fetching JSON from
> > > > > <https://www.iana.org/assignments/rdap-dns/rdap-dns.xhtml>
> > > > > and
> > > > > misinterpreting it as valid data from the registry
> > > > > established in this
> > > document or vice versa.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for the review, Alexey. No, I don't think it's an issue.
> > > > The
> > > > registries are distinct because they're designed to be
> > > > associated with
> > > > different query types. A client should use the different RDAP
> > > > bootstrap registries (there are currently 4; this one would
> > > > make 5) in
> > > > such a way that that they're directly mapped to specific types
> > > > of
> > > > queries. Domain name queries, for example, should be mapped to
> > > > values
> > > > in the Domain Name Space registry. Values in this registry
> > > > should be
> > > > mapped to other types of RDAP queries, like entity values. The
> > > > processing flow would look something like this:
> > > > 
> > > > Receive query
> > > > Determine query type
> > > > if {query type == (domain|AS|IPv4 address|IPv6 address|entity)}
> > > > then
> > > > {extract registry key; map to appropriate bootstrap registry;
> > > > retrieve
> > > > bootstrap value} else {no bootstrap is possible}
> > > Ok, so if you don't think that these JSON payloads are ever saved
> > > to files
> > > and sent around via other means, than I will clear.
> > > I am just thinking it that it would be better to have something
> > > in the
> > > payload to allow them to be distinguishable. (E.g. an extra JSON
> > > attribute.)
> > We could do something like that, but for the sake of consistency
> > it 
> > would mean modifying the existing registries, too.
> You can, but you don't have to, you can just describe what lack of
> the new attribute mean for old registry.

Isn't this exactly what the description attribute is used for? At
present the IANA has a different description for each registry. Perhaps
we should just update the text to indicate that the IANA should
describe the registry as being for object tags.

Current values in IANA:
dns.json: "description": "RDAP bootstrap file for Domain Name System
registrations"
ipv4.json: "description": "RDAP bootstrap file for IPv4 address
allocations"
ipv6.json: "description": "RDAP bootstrap file for IPv6 address
allocations"
asn.json: "description": "RDAP bootstrap file for Autonomous System
Number allocations"

-andy