[cabfpub] Voting Begins: Ballot 224: WHOIS and RDAP
Moudrick M. Dadashov
md at ssc.lt
Tue May 22 07:08:23 UTC 2018
SSC votes: "Yes".
If we ever have a (language improvement) contest, the one below should
be the best candidate - significant improvement without changing a
single word. Good job!
Thanks,
M.D.
On 5/22/2018 4:47 AM, Ryan Sleevi via Public wrote:
> Google votes YES.
>
> Noting, however, that despite the stated purpose of the ballot, there
> is the risk that by being a selection of options, we will have the
> unfortunately common risk of misreading it **incorrectly** as:
> "Retrieved (1) directly from the Domain Name Registrar or registry
> operator via the protocol defined in RFC 3912, (2) the Registry Data
> Access Protocol defined in RFC 7482, (3) or an HTTPS website"
>
> rather than the correct reading, which is:
> "Retrieved directly from the Domain Name Registrar or registry
> operator via (1) the protocol defined in RFC 3912, (2) the Registry
> Data Access Protocol defined in RFC 7482, (3) or an HTTPS website"
>
> This would ideally be resolved in a subsequent ballot as quickly as
> possible, for the benefit of our non-native English speaking
> participants in particular, and to ensure that it is clear and
> unambiguous the expectation, despite being plainly stated in the
> Purpose as to what the desired interpretation is. Ideally, such a
> ballot would not express normative requirements in definitions, and
> might otherwise use an explicit section to explain what process a CA
> should use for the determination of this information, but for
> expediency sake, clarifying in situ seems desirable.
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Wayne Thayer via Public
> <public at cabforum.org <mailto:public at cabforum.org>> 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
> <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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