Re: [weirds] I-D Action: draft-hollenbeck-dnrd-ap-query-00.txt

["Murray S. Kucherawy" <[e-mail]>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Andy Newton
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 8:51 AM
> To: Hollenbeck, Scott
> Cc: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [weirds] I-D Action: draft-hollenbeck-dnrd-ap-query-00.txt
> 
> On Apr 30, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> > I've received a private note from someone suggesting that queries for
> > registrar objects by ID and hosts by IP address should be included in
> > this draft. Does that sound reasonable?
> 
> Is it something the general public would be interested in? Or is it
> something a domain industry person wants? If its the former, it is
> probably a good idea. If it is the latter, then why aren't they using
> EPP or whatever?

I would like to be able to, given a domain name, get back a unique identifier for the registrant (owner, for example), with some expectation that it's stable.  Then if some other domain name comes back showing the same registrant ID, I know the two are related.

Bonus if I can say "give me all records for which the owner's registrant ID is X", but I'm guessing that's a long shot.

> In general, the broad internet using community doesn't tend to remember
> their own identifiers in registries. They only know the natural
> identifiers, such as domain names or IP addresses. So a look up of
> registrar's by ID is, in my opinion, a feature to make adopting the
> protocol harder while not doing much benefit for the broader internet
> public. But host lookups by IP addresses does seem like something an
> internet user may want to trouble shoot problems.

I think you're right for human consumers of the data, but automated systems might have an actual use for it.

-MSK