Re: [regext] RDAP questions

[Andrew Newton <[e-mail]>]

Hi...

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> 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<---

It should be the 2 character country code. Good catch.

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

It does seem to desire that.

>
> 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?

I'm not sure I understand this. You have two entities with the same handle?

-andy