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From: Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>
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Mike Easter wrote:
> 
> Your link is about the availability of a web-based rdap function.
> 
> There is also an openrdap site here:
> https://www.openrdap.org/
> 
Now that I'm 'getting into' this, there is an interesting 'back story' 
(I LUV b/s) in its wp article about the problems w/ the development and 
the implementation, which has been going on for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Data_Access_Protocol

Things are still somewhat incomplete because of what might be considered 
the 'complexity' (not TOO bad) as well as the 'compliance' (limited to 
recency).

>  For name registries, ICANN requires RDAP compliance since 2013.



-- 
Mike Easter