Theoretical =========== We have seen a couple of proposed use cases that seem to be ideas that people have for useful or harmful ways that RDS can be used, but that do not exist today (at least not that anyone can fully document).
For example, there seems to be a desire to use the RDS as a way to issue warrants for information about registrants. While this may be useful, this is not possible today (even with RDAP, I note).
It not only is possible today, it's also "common" (although thankfully not frequent) Registrars get served warrants for details about registrants, and the _only_ information from WHOIS that's "needed" or used for such cases is the name of the Registrar. I had the pleasure of meeting Chris Tarbell, ex-FBI Cyber Crime, at HostingCon last week - asked about WHOIS/domain data he said "we dont use it" Last year at the UKNOF event in Sheffield I spent quite some time talking with some amazing people from the UK CyberCrime departments - asked the same questions, they confirmed that although whois _might_ be looked at to see if it matches _data they already have_ for confirmation, it's not used or relied on. Which beggars the question, should "LawEnforcement" use cases even be part of the discussions ? Rob -- Rob Golding rob.golding@astutium.com Astutium Ltd, Number One Poultry, London. EC2R 8JR * domains * hosting * vps * servers * cloud * backups *