RWhois Operational Development (rwhois) Charter

NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 33rd IETF Meeting in Stockholm. It may now be out-of-date. (Consider this a "snapshot" of the working group from that meeting.) Up-to-date charters for all active working groups can be found elsewhere in this Web server.

Chair(s)

Mark Kosters <markk@internic.net>
Scott Williamson <scottw@thomtech.com>

Operational Requirements Area Director(s):

Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu>
Michael O'Dell <mo@uunet.uu.net>

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Description of Working Group

The RWhois Operational Development Working Group will be a forum for coordinating the deployment, engineering and operation of the RWhois protocol to replace the current centralized whois model. The minimum attribute set will be defined to ensure that all delegated registries maintain the required information. Required user authentication will be defined to allow remote registration with RWhois servers. Operational procedures will be established to ensure that all delegated servers conform to a set of minimum standards. If necessary the RWhois protocol specification will be updated to reflect changes in requirments identifed during the working group tenure.

Goals and Milestones

Apr 95: Establish final charter, goals, and long term group agenda.
Jul 95: Submit an Internet-Draft which documents guidelines for the registration of delegated RWhois servers.
Jul 95: Submit Internet-Draft which documents the minimum required data for distributed registration using RWhois.
Sep 95: Establish methods of authentication for remote interactive registration and submit as an Internet-Draft.
Sep 95: Establish an active test bed of RWhois servers between each of the regional registries.