Re: [weirds] FW: I-D Action: draft-hollenbeck-dnrd-ap-query-01.txt

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 11:31:43AM +0100, Gavin Brown wrote:
> Supporting text/plain provides a migration path in the early stages of
> deployment: clients can be updated to use the new transport protocol
> without also having to also support the new format.

The early arguments in favour of XML, however, were that many browsers
could render it easily.  And anyway, that still seems like a weak
reason.

If you need to support legacy clients, then you'll need to have a
straight whois server because the legacy clients won't know about the
new transport.   Who will go to the work of updating their client to
use the new transport without doing the additional work to get the
benefits of a structured format?  The new transport provides zero
benefit to the client.  It's only the structured data that provides
benefit to the client, so if they're going to update that's what
they're going to want, it seems to me.

Best,

A

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