From: Andy Newton <[email protected]> Date: Friday, February 20, 2026 at 2:38 PM To: Jasdip Singh <[email protected]>, Gavin Brown <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [regext] Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-regext-rdap-referrals-03.txt
On 2/20/26 1:42 PM, Andy Newton wrote: > > > On 2/20/26 10:38 AM, Jasdip Singh wrote: >> Hi Gavin, Andy, >> >> [JS] Though, one question comes to mind. IIUC, the core rationale for >> explicit RDAP redirects is to help clients avoid looking through the web >> links (“links” array) in an RDAP response for a specific target URI. But, >> wonder under which scenario(s) could a web link with the “rdap-bootstrap” >> relation type be returned in an RDAP response, if at all? > > It could be used by an authoritative server that gets a query for an > out-of-authority-area resource and wants to be helpful to a client by > redirecting it to a bootstrap server with the clear intent to go look for > bootstrap information. > > -andy Thinking about this some more, I think the draft shouldn't be prescriptive about how the rel types are used... maybe just offer some informative advice. I can think of scenarios where rdap-bootstrap might be in a links array. [JS] That would be better. Jasdip
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