Jim, Totally agree. Let’s not forget all the other initiatives to replace whois over the past 20 years; RWhois, RLDAP, IRIS, and WIERDS. While I applaud the efforts to reform directory services using methods other than nicname with web front ends. It’s a long difficult path that has yet to make any tangible progress.
Billy > On Jan 6, 2016, at 9:20 AM, Jim Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 6 Jan 2016, at 08:03, Shane Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Not necessarily RIPE Database related, but I thought I'd point out that >> ICANN is considering replacing WHOIS for gTLD: >> >> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-01-04-en > > Hi Shane. I think you’re grossly overstating things. > > IMO a call for volunteers to "serve on a PDPWorking Group to establish a > policy framework for a next-generation gTLD Registration Directory Service” — > whatever these things might be — is unlikely to amount to anything, even by > ICANN’s dismal record on whois matters. > > By all means watch the never-ending whois food fights at ICANN. But don’t > expect any sort of constructive or useful outcome. > >
