Re: [weirds] I-D Action: draft-blanchet-weirds-bootstrap-ianaregistries-00.txt

[Marc Blanchet <[e-mail]>]

Le 2013-06-20 à 16:22, "John R Levine" <[e-mail]> a écrit :

>> Granted it may not be so easy to do in a shell script. But then lots of
>> things are not done easily in a shell script. Should the decision on
>> whether to use IANA tables or DNS for bootstrapping depend on how easy it
>> is to use in a shell script?
> 
> Remember that the IETF can't dictate to people what to do.  We can only tell them how to interoperate.  It seems rather likely that people will be doing RDAP from shell scripts, since we certainly do WHOIS from shell scripts.  So if we dictate something too hard to do in a shell script, the Lazy Programmers will do something else, with consequent interop problems.
> 
> What do you think of the suggestion that the numbers bootstrap be baked into the clients, with occasional updates via unspecified means since it changes so rarely, and the names use <tld>.domain.rdap.arpa?

The new update of my draft being written is saying:
- numbers: get data from IANA.
- names: use DNS.
(a combination of the two drafts I wrote).

will see where it goes.

Marc.

> 
> Regards,
> John Levine, [e-mail], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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