Re: Regestry Identifiers

[davidk@ISI.EDU]

Rick and Paul,

> Paul Ferguson writes :
> 
> I think this is a fine topic for the BoF in San Jose; I would advise
> anyone, however, to have relevant issues to discuss when they attend,
> so that we do not have a cacophony of cross-issues.

The not existing (yet) IRE (or what it is called now) IETF working group
that would deal with the *IP* registries future has also already proposed
a spin-off working group that would be dealing with database (format)
issues and the like. One of the the identified problems is the NIC handle
and registry identifier. I am currently writing (together with David
Conrad) a proposed charter for a working group that would deal with
these kind of issues. It seems that the data availability issues for
domain registries are very simular to IP address space registries. I
think that it might be a good idea if we join our efforts ;-).

David K.
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