On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:14:24 +0200, At-Large Staff <staff@atlarge.icann.org> wrote:
D Younger asked if Staff could organize a briefing on the IRIS Protocol Standard, which many believe will be the next generation of WHOIS. R Guerra supported this proposal.The Staff will organize a briefing session on the IRIS Protocol Standard after the Cairo meeting.
The Chair noted that this could be a subject for the SSAC-ALAC meeting in Cairo. The ExCom and the ALAC/SSAC Liaison will pursue this issue further. ALAC Overview Report on ALAC Review Final Report
For those who wish to do some research and catch up on the subject before the briefing session, here are a few interesting links: http://www.verisign.com/research/Internet_Registry_Information_Service/index... The CRISP IETF list archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/crisp/current/ This message includes some more interesting links and comments regarding IRIS implementations: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/crisp/current/msg00479.html And the relevant RFCs http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3707.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3981.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3982.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3983.txt http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4992 IRIS is a technical protocol. It merely specifies how the data is represented and how it can be queried. As noted in the RFC: "The IRIS XML layer provides no authentication or privacy facilities of its own. It relies on the application-transport layer for all of these abilities. Application-transports should explicitly define their security mechanisms ". Hence, questions related to who gets access to what part of the information is not relevant in the IRIS context. Patrick