RE: [ssac-gnso-irdwg] Registration Touch Points

["Ram Mohan" <rmohan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adding to the Registration touch points list:

Computer touch points:
- registry-registrar EPP communication
- registrar escrow process
- registry escrow process
- automated robot/data mining process (using zone file data to mine whois)

Human touch points:
- port 43 whois query
- web/http based whois request (isn't this just a subset of port 43 query?)

Input methods vary, and often impede lookups of internationalized domain names, 
and usually do not support IRD at all.  There is a large web tools update that 
must happen once IDNs and IRDs become commonplace.  Display of the outputs are 
also completely non-standard.

-Ram

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Ram Mohan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Hitchcock [mailto:jeremy@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 10:21 AM
> To: ssac-gnso-irdwg@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ssac-gnso-irdwg] Registration Touch Points
> 
> 
> In discussing the "what we require", I think it would be useful for us
> all to consider the touch points as assumptions we have with dealing
> with registration data.  These applications we would assume to
> correctly handle (either explicitly or be backwards compatible) Here's
> an initial list to get us started:
> 
> Computer touchpoints: registry-registrar EPP communication, registrar
> escrow process
> Human touchpoints: port 43 whois query, web/http based whois request
> 
> What other touchpoint exist?
> 
> Jeremy