Smith, Bill wrote:
I'd be interested in any comments you might have regarding this session. It was on my list to attend but it unfortunately it overlapped with the IGF session, a session that was timely and of particular interest to me.
One comment I have is that *technical* evolution of the *protocol* should occur at the IETF. ICANN *might* be a place to gather requirements since it references WHOIS in its contracts but it certainly is not a place to develop any technical enhancements to an IETF protocol.
That's a comment I would have made had I attended the session.
My feeling in this session was: this is pretty well understood :-) OTOH, there already is/was IRIS, that was developed in the IETF, and that wasn't tremendously successful :-) Of course we had some interaction regarding IRIS being potentially a component in the solution-space, or not... Btw, just to avoid distraction for this RT, my personal interest in this topic is based on the resource registry aspect. Wilfried.