RP records

[Kevin Darcy]

Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <9i1vne$ldp at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
> Brad Knowles  <brad.knowles at skynet.be> wrote:
> >
> >At 7:25 AM -0400 7/5/01, Duncan Hill wrote:
> >
> >>  How common are RP records?  I know granite canyon forces me to have one,
> >>  but when I do a random set of queries of zones here and there, I get no
> >>  RP record.
> >
> >       In my experience, I have yet to run across a site that actually
> >uses them (and I've been involved in doing DNS since something like
> >1992).
>
> Me too.  In most domains there's not much need for them.  The information
> is usually found in WHOIS records rather than DNS.
>
> They're useful for services like Granite Canyon because you can use them to
> host subdomains that aren't registered in WHOIS servers.  GC themselves may
> also use them to contact their users, and they're easier to look up and
> parse than WHOIS, which is free-form text whose format depends on the
> registrar.

Sorry if this is a little off-topic, but does anyone know if there are any plans
to replace WHOIS with something more structured, e.g. an LDAP directory?


- Kevin