Hi, On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Greg Aaron wrote:
B) A domain's expiration date can be gotten via EPP <info> command. No reason to show expiration date in a <info> command but not in WHOIS.
I disagree strongly with this claim. An EPP client is normally an authenticated client with a pre-existing arrangement with the operator of the repository. There is some reason to suppose in that case that the client is operated by someone who understands the nature of the repository with which it is interacting. Even in that apparently far-off future happy state where we've finally ditched whois, we'll still have an unauthenticated mode of RDS operation, and we'll therefore have queries from clients that may well not understand the distinction between the registry data and data about the registrant-registrar relationship. It is our failure to provide a clear distinction so far in the kinds of data we return from RDS that has made this problematic. If we can find a way to make that distinction clear, then I'm all in favour of ways for passing the info around. But until we make these things clear to users, more data just adds more confusion. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn asullivan@dyn.com