Re: Anti Capitalism?

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

davidk@ISI.EDU writes:
> I don't think that the registry repository should contain the whois data
> at all.

Unfortunately, in case there is a dispute or if a registrar goes belly
up, you have to be able to get your hands on the information. Also,
you also have a need to provide some of this information in a public
way to provide contacts with domain holders, which is pretty much
essential.

> The repository should be as lightweight as possible, that is:
> 
> - pointer to registrar that registered the data
> - contain DNS configuration data
> - public keys of registrars
> - public keys of the domain holder (needed for transfer of
>   domain registration services between registrars)

I like the public key idea, but I think it is necessary to keep most
of the data we now associate with whois available centrally, for all
sorts of reasons.

> Please keep the centralized part as simple as possible. This will
> increase reliability, performance and possibly reduce the 20k fee ;-).

Contact information is actually fairly easy. You have a set of extra
columns in the domain table which consist of OIDs pointing at contact
table entries -- the contact table entries just being more or less
what we have in the nic handle information today. This isn't such a
big deal that it would substantially increase cost or complexity.

Perry