On Nov 21, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > No, iris has not been widely deployed.
The only folks I'm aware of who have deployed IRIS are DENIC and they only deployed DCHK. > My point is that if there were some reason to have this data available in a > convenient machine readable format, then iris would already be deployed. Unless the idea of deploying a new, untested, and quite heavyweight solution discouraged people from actually doing so. > That there's no uptake seems to me to be an indication that registries don't > want additional costs. Always true. > So they won't sign up to expand their dns operation costs for these purposes > either. They would if it allows them to reduce costs. I'm told that the query load on whois servers is non-trivial even today. And then there is the fact that whois doesn't really deal very well with internationalization... Regards, -drc _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop