Re: [weirds] fyi: WHOIS Policy Review Team Final Report

[Patrick Vande Walle <[e-mail]>]

On 17/05/12 10:23, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
>
> And I think it's an absurd report, with disproportionate emphasis on
> WHOIS accuracy and proposed mandates, and insufficient attention to
> privacy concerns.  Good thing we're not ICANN.

Wendy,

While  I largely concur with your vision of this report, I point out
that privacy is  mostly a matter of policy, and not standards. Hence,
the discussion on privacy on this list will be limited.

It is important to make sure that whatever standard this group will
produce will not prevent the use of an authentication framework with
different classes of users. 

My personal view is that this group also needs to come up with a clear
set of mandatory guidelines as to the implementation of such a
framework. Something that goes beyond simply saying "use HTTP AUTH". 
Would that be auth-basic, auth-digest, certificate based ?   If Iwere to
write a software client, or a Perl library to query this new system, I
would expect all queried registries to behave the same way.   If
registries are left to  implement authentication frameworks whichever
way they want,  that would be a lost opportunity to remedy the current
cacophony.

Patrick