Re: Specific Questions

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Dave Crocker allegedly said:
> 
[...]
> >6)	Complete irrelavance to the real world in regards to (5).  If the
> >	TLDs are all shared, the net effect of a registry failure is ZERO.
> 
> Well, now, THAT's an interesting view from someone running an ISP.  There
> are a number of you in Chicago, thereby making Chicago a shared-ISP
> environment.  Do you believe that it would have zero effect on your
> customers if you suddenly ceased operation today?  After all, there are all
> those other ISPs to choose from.

While "ZERO" is an overstatement, still, the effect of a registrAR
failure should be small.  (I don't know if that's what Karl meant,
though, when he said "registry".) The effect on DNS should be
effectively zero -- names should continue being resolved without any
problem.  And if there is an orderly process defined by which
customers can transfer their business from one registrar to another
(as I defined in draft-iahc-stldla-crispin-00.txt, for example), it
should be doable with a couple of email messages.  Bear in mind that a
failing registry probably will be failing because it doesn't have much
of a customer base. 

More of an issue than a registrar failure, I think, are incompetent 
registrars who screw up their interactions with other registrars.

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