Re: Anti Capitalism?

["Rick H. Wesson" <wessorh@ar.com>]

On Jan 3, 12:55am, Kent Crispin wrote:
> Subject: Re: Anti Capitalism?
> davidk@ISI.EDU allegedly said:
> >
> [...]
> >
> > I don't think that the registry repository should contain the whois data
> > at all. 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 agree that the repository shouldn't contain whois data.

Having the back end regestry support whois is trival, because all the
data is there. All that info from the applications make up the data
contained in the whois server. WHOIS is a public interface to the
metadata contained within the backend regestry.

It is useful and important, if it were not then the whois queries
on the internics whois database would be negliagble. In august of '96
there were over 10 million queries to the server WHOIS.INTERNIC.NET

-Rick


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Rick H. Wesson