[Ietf-not43] 3.2.4 Domain Information Lookup

[Eric A. Hall]

on 11/6/2002 11:45 AM Paul Stahura wrote:
> I notice the data elements listed in 3.2.4.
> I remember the old .com NIC Handles that were once common when there was a
> monopoly.
> Nowadays, handles to whois contacts are difficult to implement across
> registries,
> and even within registries in a distributed whois model.
> But I was thinking that new registries in the future could use
> the domain name itself as a sort of NIC handle.  

One of the enhancements I am working on for LDAP-WHOIS is email addresses
as virtualized NIC handles. Specifically this includes standardized
procedure for converting localpart@domain email addresses into
cn=localpart,dc=domain, matching it to a server, etc.

This is similar conceptuallly (but noticably different in structure at
least) to the other mappings (domain.dom, nn.nn.nn.nn, etc).

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