+1 for adoption.

Jasdip

From: Hollenbeck, Scott <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
To: Jasdip Singh <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>, 
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Subject: RE: [regext] Re: [Ext] request for adoption: draft-brown-rdap-referrals

OK. There are some things here that we need to discuss, but I’m convinced that 
they’re worth discussing. +1 for adoption.

Scott

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Hi,

Not sure yet if we should adopt this draft but some input to help decide:

The Link header approach, using the HEAD method, seems a simpler and more 
efficient way to just get the web links info; especially for 
bandwidth-constrained environments. It however seems more complex parsing-wise 
(to Mario’s point) but that should not be a problem if programming libraries 
already support getting them from an HTTP response.

Since the web links are grouped together for each RDAP object returned in an 
RDAP query response, not sure if that grouping knowledge would be lost when 
they are “unionized" in one or more Link headers returned. Probably, this seems 
a minor concern.

Comparing it with the RDAP Partial Response (RFC 8982) approach, only the HEAD 
method use seems closer response size-wise. Obviously, including Link headers 
in a GET response for RDAP would end up increasing the response size but 
probably not that significantly.

As for using RDAP Partial Response extension for lookup queries (besides search 
queries), not sure if we intended so. :) AFAICT, that RFC does not explicitly 
seem to cover RDAP lookups.

Architecturally, heeding the advice from RFC 1958 3.2 [1], would additionally 
doing Link headers beside RDAP partial responses be considered another way to 
get the same info (bad), or an improvement over the latter (good)? Seems an 
improvement, no? :)

Thanks,
Jasdip

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From: Mario Loffredo 
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Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Subject: [regext] Re: [Ext] request for adoption: draft-brown-rdap-referrals

Hi Gavin,

please find my comments inline.
Il 19/08/2025 17:42, Gavin Brown ha scritto:

Hi Scott,



On 15 Aug 2025, at 19:32, Hollenbeck, Scott 
<[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> wrote:



[snip]



RFC 8982 may or may not provide the model, but we will need a document in

either case. If the WG adopts this document, it can be developed with the input

and guidance of the WG.

[SAH] We already have a document in 8982. I'd like to understand if this draft 
solves a problem that isn't solved by 8982.

RFC 8982 only applies to search queries. That's clunky but presumably we don't 
care too much about that.

[ML] Its logical field of application is the RDAP search because it aims to 
limit the amount of information returned, which in a search response could be 
remarkable. But it can also be applied to RDAP lookups.

Honestly, it seems to me that parsing the content of a link header is more 
complex than getting the same information from a JSON structure, and since the 
payload of a search response is manageable, I wonder what the real benefit is.

It may be that all this document needs to do is standardize the value of the 
"fieldSet" parameter. Unless clients and servers agree on that, there can be no 
interoperability.

[ML] Don't see the complexity gap between agreeing on the value of the fieldSet 
parameter and agreeing on an extension identifier.

What makes a difference IMO is that an extension identifier is registered while 
the fieldSet parameter value isn't.

But RFC8982 can be updated to create a new IANA registry.



Best,

Mario



G.



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