Re: Anti Capitalism?

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Perry E. Metzger allegedly said:
> 
> 
> 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. 

This is at most a requirement for database escrow, not a central repository.  
There could be many escrow agents.  And it would be a pretty extreme 
dispute or a really unusual failure mode that would make the data 
unavailable.  Finally, neither of these cases require realtime 
availability. 

> 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.

Yes, and a distributed mechanism would work fine.

[...]

> 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.

Perhaps you could specify those reasons.  I certainly don't see them.


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