-----Original Message----- From: gtld-tech-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gtld-tech-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of John Levine Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2016 11:33 AM To: gtld-tech@icann.org Subject: Re: [gtld-tech] weirds bootstrap, was Search Engines Indexing RDAP Server Content
In article <56B740BA.6070208@posix.co.za> you write:
It would be great if "old" gTLD's did the same thing.... and even ccTLD's for that matter.
We went through this in great length in WEIRDS, and I'd encourage you to review the mailing list archive. We considered a bunch of in-band signals such as reserved names and SRV records, but we decided that we couldn't tell zone operators, particularly ccTLD zone operators, what to put in their zone files. I'm not thrilled with what we came up with, but having written an IP address RDAP client I'm using in small scale production, I can report that it works fine and the coding is not difficult.
I'd be happy if the gTLDs just kept the info in the IANA database up to date. I'm looking at you, Verisign.
What exactly are you looking at Verisign for? We're not running any production RDAP services. When the time come to add information to the registry it will be taken care of. Scott