[sig-policy] Re: A followup to prop-162

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:03:09 -0700

I'll iterate David's question but to add my own context.

One might think the barriers to entry for the information in one region would be appropriate for all RIRs and their regions in a homogeneous way, as such creating a singular federation of access for all 'whois' data, given it is supposedly global "public data" that has utility for all validated consumers.. hence why all RIRs might ideally be working together to "spread the load". 

The mechanisms and protocols are less important than the ethics and morality of doing so.

Cheers,
Terry
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On 10 Mar 2025, at 4:23 pm, David Farmer via SIG-policy <[email protected]> wrote:



On Mon, Mar 10, 2025, at 01:02 David Conrad <[email protected]> wrote:
David,

On Mar 9, 2025, at 9:50 AM, David Farmer via SIG-policy <[email protected]> wrote:
> The idea of requiring authentication for access to the global Whois information has some merit. However, this change should not be made independently by each RIR but should be coordinated across the entire Internet Registry ecosystem.

Are there any efforts underway to coordinate/develop a federated system?

Between the RIRs, there is nothing that I know about. 

However, there are several examples of federated authentication systems in the wild. InCommon and eduGAIN are examples from higher education. They utilize SAML.

Thanks.
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