Re: Anti Capitalism?

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Perry E. Metzger allegedly said:
> 
> 
> Kent Crispin writes:
> > Actually, I wouldn't.  Putting the data in DNS is to support one 
> > purpose:  finding a person to fix a problem when DNS doesn't work.  
> 
> If the DNS doesn't work, then you can't use it to find the contact for
> the zone.
> 
> > As a privacy advocate, I see no reason to facilitate people finding 
> > every system I might be the contact for, for example.
> 
> I understand the concern, but I'm afraid that your mechanism doesn't
> fix that since in theory I could just run a service which periodically
> slurps all the DNS records in the world and allows searches, at which
> point your desire is not met and we also have the operational
> difficulties I mentioned.

No, you have just solved the operational difficulty you mentioned :-) 
If I need to find the contact I go to the white page service you are 
so kindly providing.

Of course, if DNS slurpers become a problem, the site with the DNS 
master zone file could put a filtered copy of that file up for ftp 
access.  I cringe at the thought, but I fear it is in the long run 
unavoidable.

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