Re: Anti Capitalism?

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

Kent Crispin writes:
> 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. 

If our objective is to minimize complexity and expense, this escrow
idea certainly goes counter to the objective.

Your notion of storing the idea in the DNS is also a problem -- you
cannot search the DNS, you cannot map handles into the DNS, and if a
DNS server goes down you lose the ability to get contact information
for that domain -- very bad.

Perry