[db-wg] NWI-2 Displaying history for database objects where available

I would like to bring to the group's attention the Historical RDAP
protocol standard draft presented by Tom Harrison to the REGEXT Working
Group during IETF 99 last July:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ellacott-historical-rdap/?include_text=1
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/99/materials/slides-99-regext-5-history-of-records-in-rdap/

Its implementation is under active development at APNIC and you can find
an experimental UI to the service at
https://www.apnic.net/static/whowas-ui/ 

Some more detail: https://www.apnic.net/about-apnic/whois_search/whowas/

Cheers,

Raf



den is via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> writes:

> Colleagues
>
> The DB WG co-chairs would now like to address this issue. There was
> some discussion on the mailing list in May to July of 2016.
>
> In brief the issue is that the current history mechanism has an
> arbitrary design constraint that only the history of currently
> existing objects can be seen. This may also not be complete if the
> object has been deleted and re-created.
>
> The problem definition has not yet been finalised. Also there was some
> discussion about the reasons for wanting more historical information
> being made available for resource objects (and possibly some other
> object types).
>
> We would therefore like to ask anyone with concerns about historical
> data to please review what was said last year and express support or
> otherwise and perhaps add some reasoning as to why more data is
> needed.
>
> cheers
> denis
> co-chair DB WG