Retrieving information about Object Identifiers using the WHOIS protocol
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INTERNET-DRAFT D. Marschall
Intended Status: Informational ViaThinkSoft
Expires: August 24, 2021 February 2021
Retrieving information about Object Identifiers
using the WHOIS protocol
draft-viathinksoft-oidwhois-01
Abstract
This document defines a method for retrieving information about
Object Identifiers (OIDs) and their associated Registration
Authorities (RAs) using the WHOIS protocol, in a way that is both
human-readable and machine-readable.
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1 Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1 Authentication Tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2 Request ABNF Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3 Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1 Format and Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2 Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2.1 Query-Section (Information about Query and Result) . . 7
3.2.2 Object-Section (Information about the OID) . . . . . . 8
3.2.3 RA-Section (Information about the Current RA) . . . . . 11
3.2.4 Sections for Previous Registration Authorities . . . . 13
3.3 Digital Signature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.4 Date/Time Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.4.1 Date/Time Format ABNF Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.4.2 Date/Time Format Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4 Referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5 Full Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.1 Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.2 Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6 Alternative Namespaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.1 Example: UUID Namespace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7 Internationalization Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
8 Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
9 IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
10 Annotation about the deprecation of the WHOIS protocol . . . . 20
11 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
11.1 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
11.2 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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1 Introduction
An Object Identifier (OID) is an extensively used identification
mechanism jointly developed by ITU-T and ISO/IEC for naming any type
of object with a globally unambiguous name. OIDs provide a
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