Cross-Registry Information Service Protocol BOF (crisp)

Monday, March 18 at 1930-2200
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CHAIR:	Ted Hardie <ted.hardie@nominum.com>

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Description:

The goal of this BoF is to understand the need and discuss
the creation of a working group to create or select a protocol for 
specific administrative directory services provided by registries.  
Backwards compatibility with RFC 954 (WHOIS) is a non-goal.

Motivation:

The expansion and growth of the Internet has seen the registry function
of a traditionally centralized and managed Network Information Center
become the responsibility of various autonomous, functionally disparate,
and globally distributed Internet registries. With the broadening
number of Internet registries, the uses of their administrative
directory services has expanded from the original and traditional use
of the WHOIS protocol to include: the use of whois outside the scope
its specification; formal and informal definitions of syntax;
undocumented security mechanisms; the use of non-standard protocols, 
etc.

Requirements have been gathered, straw proposals are on the table,
and the purpose of this BoF is to determine how to proceed to
specifying a new standard service (based on existing protocols
where possible), to support the universal, common needs of the
Internet registries and their related communities. The
requirements are of both the current use of these directory services
and the desired need of new function based on input from relevant
forums. These requirements are not specific to any protocol.

BoF Agenda:

    1. Scribe volunteer
    2. Agenda bash
    3. Overview of motivation
    4. Discussion of requirements
        . draft-newton-ir-dir-requirements-00.txt
    5. Overview of straw proposals
        . draft-newton-iris-00.txt 
        . draft-newton-iris-dreg-00.txt 
        . draft-newton-iris-areg-00.txt 
        . draft-newton-iris-http-00.txt
        . draft-hall-ldap-whois-00.txt
    6. Charter bash

Background reading:

   Requirements:
    draft-newton-ir-dir-requirements-00.txt 

   LDAP proposals:
    draft-newton-ldap-whois-00.txt
    draft-hall-ldap-whois-00.txt

   XML proposal:
    draft-newton-iris-00.txt (replaces draft-newton-xdap-01.txt)
    draft-newton-iris-dreg-00.txt (replaces draft-newton-xdap-domdir-01.txt)
    draft-newton-iris-areg-00.txt (replaces draft-newton-xdap-ipdir-01.txt)
    draft-newton-iris-http-00.txt

   The State of Whois:
    draft-campbell-whois-00.txt
    draft-brunner-rfc954-historic-00.txt

Straw Charter Proposal:

The expansion and growth of the Internet has seen the registry function
of a traditionally centralized and managed Network Information Center
become the responsibility of various autonomous, functionally disparate,
and globally distributed Internet registries. With the broadening
number of Internet registries, the uses of their administrative
directory services has expanded from the original and traditional use
of the WHOIS protocol to include: the use of whois outside the scope
its specification; formal and informal definitions of syntax;
undocumented security mechanisms; the use of non-standard protocols, 
etc.

The purpose of the CRISP Working Group is to create or select
a protocol for accessing the administrative directory services 
provided by registries.  

Specific design considerations include:

o Backwards compatibility with RFC 954 (WHOIS) is a non-goal.

o Information must be managed in a distributed fashion (e.g., at
  different registries), while it is desirable to be able to
  locate (or find) the source of authoritative data no matter
  where it is stored (i.e., distributed storage, global navigation).

o The service must provide the functional support for managing
  privileged and non-privileged data (although the definition of what 
  is privileged is not within scope for this work).  

o Necessary levels of authentication of data, integrity, etc.

The service definition will define: 

o specific data types and queries to be supported in the global service

o standard process for naming or locating authoritative servers 

o expression of input query 

o expression of result sets 

o standard expression of error conditions 

o authentication and verification of data integrity

Deliverables: 

o Finalized requirements document for the CRISP service

o Document specifying (the use of) a protocol for providing CRISP
  standard service.

Input documents:
    draft-newton-ir-dir-requirements-00.txt 

Goals and Milestones:

 Jun 02    Submit requirements document as an Informational RFC 
           
 Sep 02    Submit first draft of protocol (use) specification

 Jan 03    Submit revised protocol (use) specification document
           as Proposed Standard.
           
 Feb 03    Close working group.