Network Working Group Pradeep Kumar Xplorer Internet-Draft Intended status: Standards Track Individual Expires: April, 23, 2014 Nov 23, 2013 Extensions to WHois service to allow query on email identities draft-emailaddressreg-whois-00 Abstract This document describes the need for a WHois email address service similar to the internet domainname WHois service. Theres a need for a registered email address as opposed to non-registered email address to fight internet SPAM, as well as encouraging email use for personal, commercial and legal and all kinds of purposes.An internet user can have multiple email identities. This service implementation would also help deliver a Single SignON solution for WWW services. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on April 23, 2014. Pradeep Kumar Xplorer Expires April 23, 2014 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Using Whois to query on Email addresses Nov 23, 2013 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ............................................... 2 2. Background ..................................................2 3. General Information of the service ..........................2 4. Authors Addresses ...........................................3 5. Acknowledgements ............................................3 1. Introduction To implement a WHois email address service in addition to WHois domainname service. 2. Background Currently a user can go to a service like http://www.whois.net and lookup a domainname.If i query explodingmoon.org It would output WHOIS Imformation for explodingmoon.org. There has to be a way i can type in a valid email address as well as input to WHois service. Currently no such email directory exists. 3. General Information of the service A user is likely to have several email addresses that he or she uses. A concept of primary email address can be used for the Whois service. I am pradeep@explodingmoon.org as well as pradeepan88@hotmail.com and pradeeplugimwidnaus@yahoo.com. A user should be able to register his or her email address with WHois registry and add other details about them. A location field of the email address can be used to implement email security. if my email is pradeep@explodingmoon.org and i give my location as Thailand, my email service provider can provide me additional security by restricting access from netherlands. There could be any level of details. Registration of email addresses in the registry can be via email or via webforms.A user choses what information he or she choses to reveal. I can chose to reveal my contact information.If I am pradeep@microsoft.com and i no longer have access to microsoft.com because of leaving the company, a User can still can query Whois pradeep@microsoft.com and get other email addresses to continue any transactions. Pradeep Kumar Xplorer Expires April 23, 20014 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Using WHois query on email addresses Nov 2013 4.Authors' Addresses Pradeep Kumar Xplorer EMail: pradeepan88@hotmail.com URI: http://www.explodingmoon.org http://www.dhyanayoga.info 5.Acknowledgement I have been a publisher of http://www.dhyanayoga.info since 2004/2005 and http://www.explodingmoon.org since 2008. I have used bluehost.com for hosting my website and have found the need to know who views my site, their email addresses and not just IP address. Also i have been using services of hotmail.com, yahoo.com, facebook.com and found the need for a Single SignON to the WWW and an email registry and a concept of primary email address is a precursor to that implementation. Pradeep Kumar Xplorer Expires April 23, 20014 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Using WHois query on email addresses Nov 2013