Re: A long strange trip

[chris@hal.iodesign.com (Christopher Ambler)]

>At 11:40 PM -0600 12/24/96, Thom Stark wrote:
>>Y'know, one thing the IAB, ISOC and ISOC's Board ought ALL to commit to
>>RIGHT NOW is that, when the NSI contract expires, NSI's ability to
>>update the DNS root servers should IMMEDIATELY be revoked.
>>
>>This would not only end NSI's monopoly on the .com domain, but forever
>>eliminate NSI as a registrar--something that, in my view, they richly
>>deserve for being:
>
>	How do you propose to implement this suggestion in a fashion which
>does not also penalize all the .com/.net/org users?
>
>	As we keep saying, operational impact needs careful consideration.

Simply logistically, plan to migrate the existing database into the
repository, and share com/net/org amongst the new registrars. Make
that part of the operational document for the new registrars, so that
it comes not only as no surprise, but muchly anticipated.

Warmly invite NSI to join CORE from day-one and help design and implement
the solution, so on that day that it changes over, they can pick up with
little or no downtime as a shared registrar like everyone else. If they
choose not to join CORE, that's their choice.

What have I missed?

--
Christopher Ambler
President, Image Online Design, Inc.