[nc-whois] Fw: Last-Verified Date Contact Element

["Ram Mohan" <rmohan@afilias.info>]

Task Force Members:
For those of you not following the various technical events happening in
IETF, this one is of value.  Rick & I have been discussing the value of
adding a new field to the WHOIS, called "Last Verified" date that allows
registrars/registry to show when the information was last verified.

It has now been proposed formally to the IETF EPP Working Group, and is on a
fast track.

Similarly, a WHOIS element called <private>, introduced by other IETF
working group members (to allow for privacy) is on a fast track.

We have debated both these items in our TF, and I believe that this is a
step in the right direction for domain name registrants worldwide.

-ram
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Wesson" <wessorh@ar.com>
To: <shollenbeck@verisign.com>
Cc: <ietf-provreg@cafax.se>; <ietf-not43@lists.verisignlabs.com>;
<iesg@ietf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 11:34 AM
Subject: Last-Verified Date Contact Element


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> Scott && IESG,
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> I realized that there is an item we have overlooked in the wg. In private
> conversations, myself and others have noted that there is no way to
> identify the last time a contact object was verified.
>
> I propose that we add a "Last-Verified" date element to the contact object
> so that registries/registrars may express the last time the object was
> verified. Since contacts have no expiration date and the "last-modified"
> date is irreverent to verification.
>
> I believe that this will aid in identifying old, stale and irreverent data
> within a registry and if the element is published in CRISP or whois to the
> community in general.
>
> I know it is late in the game for identifing issues with the epp proposals
> so I have CCed the IESG.
>
> -rick
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