Re: Shared data base access by registries

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 10:19 PM -0800 11/18/96, David R. Conrad wrote:
>>A shared regestry would be vastly more complex than a regular domain
...
>>The shared regestry would have all the applications funneled
>>into it. It would have to be staffed 24x7 and have a sizeable amount
>>of network resources (storage, cpu, badwith)
>
>In short, it would need to be a production service capable of
>providing a high level of assurance.  How would you characterize the
...
>TANSTAAFL.  My model of this system is that the TLD is administered by
>a neutral third party and that the neutral third party's costs are
>shared by "registered agents" (the folk who have provided their public

	David, what you are describing for the neutral third party is a
rather significant operation.  It is an entirely reasonable and, in my
opinion, desireable state of affairs to have such an operation.  However,
if we are going to IMPOSE a requirement for such an entity, how shall it be
established an run?  Who "owns" it; who "manages" it?  How is the quality
of its operation assured?

	If we MANDATE such an entity, we must view its subjects as
unwilling and essentially hostile participants.  That's not to say they are
mean or evil but, rather, that an imposed structure must be designed to
work under conditions which well may have some or all of the participants
hostile to it.  This, it strikes me, is something we well might be able to
achieve in the long run, but I question getting it in place anytime soon.

	To reiterate:  I also wonder whether the IAHC policies and
procedures could not be formulated merely to "encourage" cooperative
ventures, leaving the details of the creation and operation of the neutral
third party to those forming the cooperative?

	I'll add that my own bias is to further encourage such cooperatives
to have equal-access rules for participating in the cooperative, but I
haven't thought through the ramifications of such an added features.  Feels
nice but is it realistic?

d/

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