On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 03:26:24AM +0000, Rob Golding wrote:
WHOIS/RDS is *NOT* in anyway necessary for the 'functioning' of the internet
The collection of the data through an SRS (which is the back end of the RDS) certainly _is_ required to make the DNS work today. We could have done it differently, of course -- a nasty bit of hackery with SIG(0) and DNS Update might have been good enough for most registries. But that's not what we did, and so collecting the NS data for a given name is something that SRSes do, and therefore the collection of that data falls under this WG's charter. One might think that was a scope mistake, but it's what the charter says. And since we're talking about data collection just now it's not a mistake to talk about nameserver data, no matter how absurd that might seem. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@anvilwalrusden.com