Re: Anti Capitalism?

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Kevin Brown allegedly said:
> 
[...]
> 
> So in the shared model, has the IAHC concluded what the projected failure
> rate of registries will be, and will the other registries be strong enough
> to pick up the pieces.

I don't know about the IAHC, but the answer is almost certainly yes.  

Every proposal I have seen for shared registries addresses this 
question.  There is always a central agency that keeps either a live 
database or escrowed copies of registrar databases.  DNS will remain 
just as stable under shared registries as under exclusive registries, 
perhaps moreso, because the number of secondary servers that have 
complete data for the zone will likely be substantially higher in the 
shared registry case.

So if your registrar fails one of the hundred others that serve the 
same domain will be happy to pick up your business, and DNS will continue 
merrily along, unaware of the failure.

There are bizarre, pathological failure modes, to be sure -- as if
your local telephone office decided to succede from its parent company
and rewire all the circuits under its control -- in that case the
customers would be hurt. 

But one of the primary motivations for shared registries is the 
reliability given by having multiple providers for the same service.

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