Registration Data Access Protocol: Difference between revisions

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| date=2015-06-22

| publisher=[[American Registry for Internet Numbers|ARIN]]

| accessdate=2016-11-10}}</ref> For name registries, [[ICANN]] requires RDAP compliance since 2013.<ref name="icann2013">{{cite web

|url = https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-2013-09-17-en

|title = 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement

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| quote=Registry Operator shall implement a new standard supporting access to ___domain name registration data (SAC 051) no later than one hundred thirty-five (135) days after it is requested by ICANN if: 1) the IETF produces a standard (i.e., it is published, at least, as a Proposed Standard RFC as specified in RFC 2026); and 2) its implementation is commercially reasonable in the context of the overall operation of the registry

| accessdate=2016-11-10}}</ref>

==Number resources==

RDAP databases for assigned IP numbers are maintained by five [[Regional Internet registry|Regional Internet registries]]. [[American Registry for Internet Numbers|ARIN]] maintains a bootstrap database.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/rdap/rdap.pdf |title=RDAP at ARIN |date=September 17, 2019}}</ref> Thanks to the standard document format, tasks such as, for example, getting the abuse team address of a given IP number can be accomplished in a fully automated manner.<ref>{{cite web |title=abuserdap |url=https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?110246}}</ref>

==Name resources==

RDAP databases for registered names are maintained after ICANN agreement.<ref name="icann2013"/> Name resources are much slower, as the number of registries under ICANN is huge. In addition, as the [[GDPR]] became enforceable, in May 2018, the problem of personal data divulged via WHOIS or RDAP slowed adoption further.<ref>{{cite web |title=Haunted by Europe's GDPR, ICANN sharpens wooden stake to finally slay the Whois vampire |author=Kieren McCarthy |date=October 23, 2019 |url=https://www.theregister.com/2019/10/23/icann_kills_whois/ |work=[[The Register]]}}</ref>

==References==