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"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 25 June 2013 20:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [weirds] I-D Action: draft-blanchet-weirds-bootstrap-ianaregistries-00.txt
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>> It occurs to me that this is like the bootstrap file in your DNS
>> cache.  The authoritative copy comes from IANA, but it changes very
>> slowly, and the penalty for being slightly out of date is low, so you
>> don't need to be able to update it automatically.

> I'm a little uncomfortable with the assumption that the numbers list will
> never change ever amen, so I'd prefer this sort of approach versus
> expecting clients to compile the list in.

I figured it'd be in a local config file that is installed with the RDAP 
client and updated either when you update the client or perhaps by running 
a separate update program.  But again, it doesn't have to be particularly 
easy or automatic since once a year is likely to be plenty.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.

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