[cabfpub] Voting Begins: Ballot 224: WHOIS and RDAP

Wayne Thayer wthayer at mozilla.com
Wed May 16 16:47:54 UTC 2018


Mozilla votes Yes on Ballot 224.

- Wayne

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:21 PM Wayne Thayer <wthayer at mozilla.com> wrote:

> Ballot 224: WHOIS and RDAP
>
> Purpose of Ballot: The Registry Data Access Protocol (RDAP) is the
> successor to WHOIS, and this ballot adds explicit support for RDAP to the
> BRs by adding a definition of "WHOIS". The new definition permits the use
> of the registry or registrar's web interface, and requires WHOIS
> information to be retrieved directly from the registrar or registry of the
> domain name.
>
> The following motion has been proposed by Wayne Thayer of Mozilla and
> endorsed by Tim Hollebeek of DigiCert and Adriano Santoni of Actalis.
>
> — MOTION BEGINS –
> This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and
> Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” as follows, based upon Version
> 1.5.7:
>
> In section 1.6.1, add the following definition:
>
> WHOIS: information retrieved directly from the Domain Name Registrar or
> registry operator via the protocol defined in RFC 3912, the Registry Data
> Access Protocol defined in RFC 7482, or an HTTPS website.
>
> In section 1.6.3, add the following references:
>
> RFC3912, Request for Comments: 3912, WHOIS Protocol Specification, Daigle,
> September 2004.
>
> RFC7482, Request for Comments: 7482, Registration Data Access Protocol (
> RDAP) Query Format, Newton, et al, March 2015.
>
> — MOTION ENDS –
>
> A comparison of the changes can be found at
> https://github.com/cabforum/documents/compare/Ballot220...wthayer:Ballot224
>
> The procedure for approval of this ballot is as follows:
>
> Discussion (7+ days)
>
> Start Time: 2018-05-03  19:00 UTC
>
> End Time: after 2018-05-15 19:00 UTC
>
> Vote for approval (7 days)
>
> Start Time: 2018-05-15  19:00 UTC
>
> End Time: 2018-05-22  19:00 UTC
>
>
>
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