[Ietf-not43] extensibility

[Andrew Newton]

Peter Gietz wrote:
> 
> Alone the fact that Eric could perl a FIRS client in one week prooves ho 
> cheap it can be to deploy FIRS. I know it is a long way from proof of 
> concept to production service, but what makes you think this path is 
> shorter with XML?
> 

Speaking as somebody who has put together both types of systems (Pimmit 
- IRIS -00 and draft-newton-ldap-whois-03.txt*), I can tell you that 
LDAP offered no speed of implementation or ease of deployment advantages.

* draft-newton-ldap-whois-03 is not as far reaching as FIRS.

-andy