Hi Gavin,

Thanks for incorporating previous feedback. Agree with Pawel on the direction 
of this specification. :)

Some input on this version:

Like the “rdap-bootstrap” relation type idea!

As for the RIR Search relation types, it says:

"Furthermore, servers SHOULD only use the "/redirects0_ref" path in an HTTP 
redirect when the link relationship type is one for a terminal relationship 
such as "rdap-top" and "rdap-bottom" (i.e., "rdap-up" and "rdap-down" do not 
explicitly express a relationship that is the end of a series of redirects).”

I think beside the termination criterion here, another criterion in returning a 
single object could also be considered. Since “rdap-up” and “rdap-top” searches 
could both at most return one object whereas “rdap-down” and “rdap-bottom” 
searches could return zero or more, including one sometimes. Therefore, using 
"the "/redirects0_ref” path in an HTTP redirect should be possible for all 
these relation types, it seems.

Also, could expound that IANA RDAP Bootstrap files would most likely be 
employed to determine such RIR1-to-RIR2 redirections.

For these relation types, might help to informatively refer to RFC 9910.

Thanks,
Jasdip

From: Gavin Brown <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 10:23 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [regext] Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-regext-rdap-referrals-03.txt

Greetings WG,

This version includes feedback received since the previous version. Also, the 
title has been changed from “Efficient RDAP Referrals” to “Explicit RDAP 
Redirects”. We believe this title more accurately reflects the functionality 
currently described in the document.

As a result of the change in terminology (from “referral” to “redirect”), the 
extension identifier has also been changed.

The changes are described in more detail in the “Change Log” section:

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-regext-rdap-referrals-03.html#name-changes-from-02-to-03

FAO chairs: Andy and I would like to request the HTTP Directorate to review of 
this document.

Thanks,

Andy & Gavin.

On 17 Feb 2026, at 3:09 pm, [email protected] wrote:

Internet-Draft draft-ietf-regext-rdap-referrals-03.txt is now available. It is
a work item of the Registration Protocols Extensions (REGEXT) WG of the IETF.

 Title:   Explicit RDAP Redirects
 Authors: Gavin Brown
          Andy Newton
 Name:    draft-ietf-regext-rdap-referrals-03.txt
 Pages:   10
 Dates:   2026-02-17

Abstract:

 This document describes an RDAP extension that allows RDAP clients to
 request to be redirected to a related RDAP record for a resource.

The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-regext-rdap-referrals/

There is also an HTML version available at:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-regext-rdap-referrals-03.html

A diff from the previous version is available at:
https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-regext-rdap-referrals-03

Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at:
rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts



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