[sig-nir] RDAP protocol deployment

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Subject: [sig-nir] RDAP protocol deployment
From: Tom Harrison <tomh at apnic dot net>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:54:33 +1000
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The RDAP protocol (whois replacement) specifications, which are
products of the WEIRDS IETF working group
(https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/weirds/charter/), are nearing
completion.  A brief introduction to this work is available
at http://www.apnic.net/apnic-info/whois_search/about/rdap; its main
advantages over the current whois "protocol" are:

 - standardised data structures;
 - internationalisation support; and
 - query bootstrap (source for finding authoritative servers).

We would be interested to know if any of you guys plan on deploying
RDAP servers in the future, so that we can discuss how to handle
mirroring and redirection.  If you have any other questions about the
protocol, or APNIC's deployment of it, please let us know.

-Tom