Unified Registration Data Access Protocol Query Format
draft-ietf-weirds-rdap-query-00
Network Working Group A. Newton
Internet-Draft ARIN
Intended status: Standards Track S. Hollenbeck
Expires: March 23, 2013 Verisign Labs
September 19, 2012
Unified Registration Data Access Protocol Query Format
draft-ietf-weirds-rdap-query-00
Abstract
This document describes uniform patterns to construct HTTP URLs that
may be used to retrieve registration information from registries
(including both Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and Domain Name
Registries (DNRs)) using "RESTful" web access patterns.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Path Segment Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1. IP Network Path Segment Specification . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Autonomous System Path Segment Specification . . . . . . . 5
2.3. Domain Path Segment Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.4. Name Server Path Segment Specification . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.5. Entity Path Segment Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3. Extensibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Internationalization Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Appendix A. Path Segment Specification for Search Queries . . . . 9
Appendix B. Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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1. Introduction
This document describes a specification for querying registration
data using a RESTful web service and uniform query patterns. The
service is implemented using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
[RFC2616].
The protocol described in this specification is intended to address
deficiencies with the WHOIS protocol [RFC3912] that have been
identified over time, including:
o Lack of standardized command structures,
o lack of standardized output and error structures,
o lack of support for internationalization and localization, and
o lack of support for user identification, authentication, and
access control.
The patterns described in this document purposefully do not encompass
all of the methods employed in the WHOIS and RESTful web services of
all of the RIRs and DNRs. The intent of the patterns described here
are to enable lookups of networks by IP address, autonomous system
numbers by number, reverse DNS meta-data by domain, domains by name,
name servers by name, registrars by name, and entities (such as
contacts) by identifier. It is envisioned that each registry will
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