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Document: draft-ietf-regext-rdap-rir-search-14
Reviewer: Russ Housley
Review Date: 2025-02-05
IETF LC End Date: 2025-02-17
IESG Telechat date: unknown

Summary: Ready


Major Concerns:  None.


Minor Concerns:

Section 1: The text talks about "RIR Whois services".  Is there a reference
for this?  If not, would a reference to RFC 3912 be appropriate?

Section 3.4:  The document says:

~~~
   This is acceptable, because this behaviour:

      does not conflict with the current description of the link
      relation; and

      is not generally applicable, but instead limited to the context of
      RDAP INR objects only.
~~~

I have two comments.  First, it is unclear to me what "This" is referencing.
Second, the formatting is a bit confusing.  Maybe bullets would resolve this
concern.


Nits:

Section 6: Bullets in the first paragraph would be helpful.