Re: [weirds] RDAP registrar entities

[Andrew Newton <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Brian Mountford <[e-mail]> wrote:
> In a related question, I'm trying to figure out how to return information
> about contact roles. RFC 7483 includes a roles field at the entity level. If
> we are returning information for a domain, that works fine. What do we put
> in the roles field, though, if the user queries for the contact directly?

Most likely nothing.

> The role would depend on which, if any, domain is referencing the contact.
> The contact could be a stand-alone entity with no referencing domains at
> all. Is it expected that the registry will loop through all domains, looking
> for any that reference the contact, and build a union of all roles that the
> contact plays in any domain? That seems inefficient.

I would hope your indexes aren't built in such a way that you are
scanning all of your domains. Regardless of the inefficiency, roles do
not make sense in the context of an entity query. They are meant to
describe the relationship between an entity and the object instance
containing them.

I hope that helps explain it.

-andy