Re: Shared vs. Exclusive

[George Michaelson <ggm@connect.com.au>]

I'd like to ask a couple of naieve questions about shared vs exclusive
registries.

(1) are models such as CVS and other existing distributed code maintenance
    relevant in terms of how they permit structured objects to be maintained
    by collections of dispersed people? I'm not trying to say the CVS code
    itself is the tool, but the idea of revision-control and distributed
    access to a central master version might have merit.

(2) in a related sense, can a shared registry actually look identical to
    a monopolistic one if the back-end magic that achieves shared control
    is invisible at the (DNS/Ripe/whatever) frontend?

What I see when I read "shared" is the idea that multiple disjoint peoples
and organizations can take end-user requests through to global visibility.

Is this what we're trying to define when we say "shared" or are people much
more interested in embedded protocols to support shared-ness in the DNS
itself or what? I would have thought most of the argument so far was
really not about code, but about legalisms and motivations.

-George
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