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

[Francisco Arias <[e-mail]>]

Hi Alex,


See below.


On 5/7/12 11:43 PM, "Alex Sergeyev" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I did not have chance to participate in list earlier and really hope
>to not repeat things that were said before.
>
>So far, based on this draft I really would like to ask if there are
>serious plans to keep text/html and text/plain in the spec.

Good question, I think the text currently in the draft was copied from the
previous draft that Steve and I wrote describing the testbed
implementation we did.

>In my opinion it looks like step backwards to battle with old whois
>without proper data formatting.
>
>Having HTML in API seems like mix of presentation and data which also
>would be best to avoid. I'm also wondering if having too much freedom
>would make some providers to not go crazy and add things like
>application/pdf to their list of formats.
>
>Would you mind clarifying reasons to have more than JSON + XML and how
>such reasons help RESTful WHOIS future?

We had text/html thinking that would be the output given to "the common"
user that is querying using her/his browser.

We had text/plain to provide the old-WHOIS look alike output that we
provided through a proxy. Since the RESTful server was already outputting
text data in the required format, the proxy limited itself to translate
the query and provide back the answer.

I don't have a strong feeling about whether it should stay or not.

Thoughts?

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Francisco.