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

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>> Would you mind clarifying reasons to have more than JSON + XML and how
>> such reasons help RESTful WHOIS future?
>
>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.

As I understand it, the goal of WEIRDS is to create a spec that
computers can use to query in a reliable way for the data that is
currently served through WHOIS, and to get back responses that can
be parsed mechanically.

I'm having a great deal of trouble imagining an application where I'd
implent the restful queries, but then try and grep the answers out of
a text response rather than spending 10 minutes to call a JSON library
and get a data structure I can use directly.

R's,
John