[Ltru] IANA XML registries

[David Conrad <david.conrad at icann.org>]

Hi,

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic dot fr> wrote:
> > Any news about the supposed plan to move all IANA registries to XML?
> > No idea. Do you mind if I ping the IANA about that?

Yes, IANA is undertaking to convert all our registries over to XML.   
We'll be doing this in an incremental fashion of course, starting  
with a few of the simpler registries, getting feedback from people,  
revising and doing more registries, getting feedback, etc. until  
everything is converted over.  Part of this project will also be to  
generate "legacy" registries from the XML in formats that are as  
close to what exists now as we can easily manage (in an undoubtedly  
vain attempt to try to limit the screams of outrage from the poor  
souls who have hacked software to deal with the existing registries).

We anticipate having the first set of registries (and various backend  
systems we use internally) done by sometime around the beginning of  
2007.  A more formal announcement of this effort will probably be  
made at the San Diego IETF.  I'm happy to answer any questions folk  
might have...

Regards,
-drc
General Manager, IANA


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