Andrew I can understand that it *might* suit some ccTLDs to do this, though even then I’m not 100% convinced that it’s a good idea.
The reason behind my opposition to this this is pretty simple. If someone has the expectation that a lookup is definitive when it actually isn’t it will cause headaches and more often than not it’s us the registrars who have to deal with the fallout. While *some* ccTLDs have no reserved names, premium names, banned strings or any other limitations, most have. Unfortunately there is zero consistency in how this is implemented. And obviously in the gTLD space this is just as bad and probably worse. My concern is that while technically a protocol might be able to do something I’d hate to see people assuming that just because it was “possible” it had been implemented fully and properly. Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains http://www.blacknight.host/ http://blacknight.blog/ http://www.blacknight.press - get our latest news & media coverage http://www.technology.ie Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Social: http://mneylon.social Random Stuff: http://michele.irish ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,R93 X265,Ireland Company No.: 370845 On 16/12/2016, 11:58, "Andrew Newton" <a...@hxr.us> wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 6:40 AM, Michele Neylon - Blacknight <mich...@blacknight.com> wrote: > Sorry, but why would RDAP be used for this? > > I know that whois is used by a lot of people for this, but it really shouldn’t be. Only a direct EPP query to the registry can give a “sane” response. > > What am I missing? Not to diminish the importance of EPP, because it can be and is used for this in many scenarios. That said: 1. not all domain registry / registrar models fall neatly into that EPP scenario 2. not all domain registries run EPP 3. even in models where EPP is used, access to a domain availability service is often needed outside the context of EPP for actors who do not have access to EPP 4. this allows a domain availability service to be directly embedded into browser-based applications, which is not possible with EPP. This topic keeps resurfacing indicating there is a desire for it. The original WEIRDS working group did discuss it but the working group decided to keep the focus of the narrowly scoped to achieve delivery of their promised milestones. -andy _______________________________________________ regext mailing list regext@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/regext
