Re: [weirds] ICANN wants an open source reference implementation of the Domain Name RESTful Whois

[Francisco Arias <[e-mail]>]

Actually, the idea is to develop this in parallel with the standards
process, potentially having one implementation for when we need to to
interoperability checks.

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Francisco.






On 5/17/12 10:28 AM, "John Levine" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>I hadn't realized we'd finished our work already.
>
>R's,
>John
>
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>http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-16may12-en.htm
>________________________________
>Open-Source Reference Implementation of a Domain Name RESTful Whois
>Server - Request for Proposals
>
>16 May 2012
>
>ICANN is issuing today a Request for
>Proposal<http://www.icann.org/en/news/rfps/restful-whois-16may12-en.pdf>
>[PDF, 183 KB] to identify a provider capable of providing an open
>source reference implementation of a Domain Name RESTful Whois server.
>
>On 15 May 2012, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) chartered a
>new working
>group<http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/weirds/current/msg01069.html>
>to standardize a RESTful-based Registration Data Access Protocol. In
>order to facilitate the evaluation and adoption of the replacement
>protocol for domain registries and registrars, ICANN is seeking
>proposals for an open source reference implementation.
>
>Whois services, and their effectiveness in the case of
>Internationalized registration data, are important issues for ICANN.
>ICANN has been working to make advances in this area, appreciating the
>technical community's past and present contributions, and committed to
>collaborating with the technical and policy community to improve the
>Whois service.
>
>Beginning in 2002, ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee
>(SSAC) published various advisories describing the needs for
>improvement related to the Whois protocol, service and data schema,
>most recently SAC
>051<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents/sac-051-en.pdf>
>[PDF, 237 KB]: SSAC Report on Domain Name Whois Terminology and
>Structure. SAC 051 summarizes the previous advisories, and among other
>things, recommends that the ICANN community evaluate and adopt a
>replacement protocol that supports the query and display of
>Internationalized registration data as well as addressing the relevant
>recommendations in past SSAC advisories on this topic.
>
>Respondents are requested to respond to this RFP by replying to:
>[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>. The period
>to submit questions about the RFP will close on 5 June 2012. ICANN
>will provide answers to all questions submitted to all respondents by
>7 June 2012. The final response to the RFP is due on 15 June 2012.
>
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