vendor registry lookup service

[Marc Blanchet <marc.blanchet at viagenie.ca>]

Hi,
 there are some discussions about creating/extending a vendor name space
registry for applications protocols
(see http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/75/slides/apparea-3.pdf as
presented at apps-area meeting this morning).

I made the point at the mike that we already have a vendor registry: the
private enterprise numbers (PEN), which contains 35K entries, on a first
come first serve manner, and automated by IANA. On the contrary, the
proposal is based on the acap registry which contains about a dozen entries.

why should we reinvent another registry with almost same data?

One comment was made about the fact that the PEN are made of digits,
therefore not user-friendly to be shown to the end-user. While I don't
think this is a real issue and can be managed differently, I'm proposing
a simple solution: a lookup service mapping PEN to vendor name, for user
display.

Thereby, this mail announces a PEN lookup service to map the PEN to the
vendor name. This is implemented as a DNS TXT record under the
enterprise-numbers.org domain name. It is available now.

For example:

dig 31474.enterprise-numbers.org TXT
...
31474.enterprise-numbers.org. 86400 IN	TXT	"Viagenie inc."


dig 5842.enterprise-numbers.org TXT
...
5842.enterprise-numbers.org. 86400 IN	TXT	"Cisco Systems"

Regards, Marc.

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