Re: Anti Capitalism?

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Perry E. Metzger allegedly said:
> 
[...]
> 
> > Would
> > the back end repository not also be responsible for generating the
> > DNS db files and also running a whois service not to mention publishing
> > all the requests for domains?
> 
> It would be responsible for generating reports that would drive the
> generation of DNS db files and permit the generation of the whois
> database, but I doubt the machine would be running whois itself.

So, an obvious question is...who runs whois?  The second obvious 
question is...who runs DNS?

Perhaps, though, since it is simple to keep the whois data in DNS, 
the real question is the second one.

It is surprising that the draft many times refers to the fact that 
DNS is critical to the operation of the net, but does not give a 
*single word* on how the proposed scheme interacts with DNS.  This 
seems to me a serious lack that should be rectified.

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