Referral Whois BOF (RWHOIS) Reported by Mark Kosters/InterNIC and Stan Borinski/InterNIC Agenda o Introduction o Development Status - Secondaries - On-line Editing o Deployment Issues - Minimal Attribute Sets - Commonality of Attributes o RWhois Specification Changes o Become a Working Group Summary Scott Williamson presented an introduction on the main points of the RWhois protocol with hierarchical examples on how a registry can delegate information to sub-registries for network, domain, and contact information. He then went on to discuss the current InterNIC Registration Services development status on the RWhois server and our current pushes -- namely the secondary and on-line editing capabilities. Discussion ensued on the current state of the centrally maintained server, the performance, and the configuration leading up to how RWhois would be able to assume that load. It was felt by the InterNIC Registration Services that RWhois will be able to handle the load since RWhois allows for secondary servers to distribute the query load. Scott Williamson proposed that minimally APNIC and RIPE house secondary servers. There were suggestions of various supplemental enhancements to the client as in auto-configuration for the root server, and reducing the functionality of the server by transferring the display capability of the server to the client. It was also agreed to drop the requirement that a RWhois server support boolean operations from the next version of the specification. In order for RWhois to perform correctly, a minimal common attribute set for each object needs to be defined for the navigational elements. There was consensus within the group that the rwhois list should be used and quickly come to closure. At the conclusion, it was agreed that RWhois should become a working group in order to facilitate the operational deployment of RWhois within the Internet community. Action Items Scott Williamson and Mark Kosters will formulate a charter and submit it to the Operational Requirements Area Directors for review.