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Re: fwd ppml: ARIN asking about SWIP procedures

  • From: bmanning
  • Date: Thu Jan 04 16:21:52 2001

> 
> > That said, I'll posit that the adoption rate of new DNS code is fairly
> > slow (based on 3 years of study) and so even if some goofy new class or
> > RR type is promoted, it would not get deployed anytime soon.
> 
> All of this stuff (global WHOIS included) really needs to go into LDAP,
> using standardized schemas for the relevant data. Obviously the schema is
> job #1. All of the [g/cc]TLD databases and numbering authoritites really
> should have made this a collective priority a couple of years ago.
> 
> Note that putting the data into LDAP doesn't preclude WHOIS clients from
> talking to a WHOIS server which proxies the LDAP data.
> 
> -- 
> Eric A. Hall                                        http://www.ehsco.com/
> Internet Core Protocols          http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/


	LDAP might just have a chance. But it looks alot like the
	x500 stuff from the last decade.  I remain unconvinced.

--bill