Re: Publication(was 60 day waiting peroid.)

[David Collier-Brown <davecb@Canada.Sun.COM>]

davidk@isi.edu wrote:
> The names should be published permanently. Why do we need extra
> mechanisms for this ?

	Hmmn.  I like that...
> 
> Dumps (and incremental dumps) of the registrars/repository (again the
> draft is very unclear where the data is stored) databases should be
> publicly available. Customers need to (electronically) sign an 'accept
> publication of contact and domain data' on before hand to avoid privacy
> law problems (but you are probably better in this matter ;-)).

  Rather than inventing a new format, perhaps the existing
DNS would suffice.

  Imagine, for a moment, doing a dns search for ``mycompany.XXX.tm.us''
and finding an RP and a txt  record
saying ``requested by boss@mycompany.com 28 July 1944 for My Company
Inc., 123 Nowhere St., Podunk, Ohio, USA (416) 555-1212"
  NO ns records, no mx, no backwards mappings, etc, etc.

  Would this
	a) constitute a publication in the domain of discourse?
	b) be unexceptional to another ``mycompany''?

  I speculate the answer to a is an unequivical yes, but the second
remains a question.  **I** wouldn't object to an unreachable compeditor,
and I **certainly** would commence an action if I say my company
neediong the name, and I don't think I would have any objection to
the publication **unless it was dishonestlt characterized** as being
a fait accompli.

  It also has the virtue of simplicity and universal availability.
The latter is weak in most other scenarios.

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