[Ietf-not43] extensibility

[Eric A. Hall]

on 7/17/2003 8:58 AM Richard Shockey wrote:

> What I think people were thinking but could not express yesterday is
> that the real issue is not the applicability of one protocol or another
> to satisfy the requirements, lets face it both IRIS and FIRS will work
> ..its that there are serious business issues here.
> 
> And irrespective of the technical religious views of IRIS vs FIRS , the
> logical business choice, from my perspective , is IRIS.

I agree that operational convenience and potential (albeit probably
somewhat minor) cost savings through reuse are important factors, but they
aren't going to be the most important aspects for the Internet community
as a whole. We really don't want to make decisions based on the desires of
the operator community in particular. Otherwise, we'd just stick with
WHOIS since doing nothing is the cheapest and easiest by far.

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