Re: Regestry Identifiers

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@imc.org>]

At 10:09 AM -0800 11/17/96, Rick H. Wesson wrote:
>it the perview of the IAHC to determine how a regestery manages
>contact, domain, and name server handles? If so should some one write
>a proposal on how these identifers are to be handled, or is this
>up to each regestry operator.

(just to show that IAHC participants are not monolithic in their/our views...)

	1.  I'm not entirely sure I know what you mean by 'how a registry
manages'.  Please clarify a bit.

Certainly one should not dictate internal operations details.

	2.  External aspects might well be subject to efforts at creating
an integrated, global service.  I believe that the IETF would be
appropriate for this only if there are technical questions, either
involving the creation of new technology standards or in 'profiling' a
collection of specifications into an integrated service for this purpose.
My own thought is that the latter would be pretty nifty.

	3.  I'd guess that the IAHC will, in fact, want to specify a number
of external aspects about registry information management, in response to
public concerns over quality control and public information access.  At the
moment, I have no idea what form or detail this is likely to take.

d/


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