RWhois Operational Development (rwhois) --------------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 03/22/1999 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): Scott Williamson Mark Kosters Operations and Management Area Director(s): Randy Bush Bert Wijnen Operations and Management Area Advisor: Randy Bush Mailing Lists: General Discussion:rwhois@internic.net To Subscribe: rwhois-request@internic.net In Body: subscribe rwhois Archive: ftp://rs.internic.net/put/rwhois/rwhois-archive Description of Working Group: The RWhois Operational Development Working Group will be a forum for coordinating the deployment, engineering and operation of the RWhois protocol to replace the current centralized whois model. The minimum attribute set will be defined to ensure that all delegated registries maintain the required information. Required user authentication will be defined to allow remote registration with RWhois servers. Operational procedures will be established to ensure that all delegated servers conform to a set of minimum standards. If necessary the RWhois protocol specification will be updated to reflect changes in requirments identifed during the working group tenure. Goals and Milestones: APR 95 Establish final charter, goals, and long term group agenda. JUL 95 Submit an Internet-Draft which documents guidelines for the registration of delegated RWhois servers. JUL 95 Submit Internet-Draft which documents the minimum required data for distributed registration using RWhois. SEP 95 Establish an active test bed of RWhois servers between each of the regional registries. SEP 95 Establish methods of authentication for remote interactive registration and submit as an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts: No Current Internet-Drafts. Request For Comments: None to date.