Registry Information Database Exchange Formats and Protocols BOF (ride) Wednesday, August 13 at 0900-1130 ================================= Chair: David Kessons DESCRIPTION: Many different registry formats and access protocols ((r)whois(++)) for Internet registries exist right now but cannot cooperate together. RIDE explores the technical aspects and possibilities for an exchange schema for at least Internet IP, routing and domain registries. This schema will allow any Internet registry technology to work together with others for most basic operations that are interesting from a global perspective. The schema will be kept as simple as possible to allow for a minimal effort for supporting RIDE in the current existing registry technologies. Work has already commenced on a draft on the data types that were considered most urgent right now (domain and personal data). More information is available at: http://www.ISI.EDU/~davidk/ride. AGENDA: (Note: Rick Wesson & Dhaval Shah will not be in Munich, so I will take over their part of the agenda) - updates on the classes draft (Rick Wesson, Dhaval Shah) - globally unique registry identifiers (Wilfried Woeber, David Conrad, David Kessens) We will be going through the draft and make decisions on all major contentious issues which are identified by the authors. The draft will be posted on the RIDE web site www.isi.edu/~davidk/ride/ and posted on the mailing list. - formats and protocols (David Kessens) a strawman proposal for a possible format and protocol for exchanging the registry information. Draft is now available at: http://www.isi.edu/~davidk/ride/drafts/draft-ride-system.txt It is the intention that we will try to identify the direction for a simple and quickly implemantable solution and make decisions on the features that we will support and not support, with the conditions as put forward in our charter.