Re: A long strange trip

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 2:43 PM -0800 12/25/96, Christopher Ambler wrote:

> >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?
>

The $7 million dollars that NSI will bring with them to fund the
development of the shared-registry distributed database (as public
domain software).

Regards,

Simon

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