Contact and registrat info (was Anti Capitalism)

[David Collier-Brown <davecb@Canada.Sun.COM>]

Simon Higgs wrote:
> 
> At 12:55 AM -0800 1/3/97, Kent Crispin wrote:
> 
> > davidk@ISI.EDU allegedly said:
> > We can actually go further than that -- there doesn't need to be
> > *any* repository database -- DNS is completely adequate to serve that
> > function.  Of course -- it still has to be decided who runs the
> > primary nameserver...CORE?  Perhaps we just call DNS the repository.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > wren            IN      NS      songbird.com.
> >                 IN      NS      ns1.aztech.net.
> >                 IN      TXT     "Registrar: registry@songbird.com"
> >                 IN      TXT     "Contact-id: KC125"
> >                 IN      TXT     "Contact-name: Kent Crispin"
> >                 IN      TXT     "Contact-email: kent@songbird.com"
> >                 IN      TXT     "Contact-address: etc"
> >                 IN      TXT     "Contact-phone: etc"
> >                 IN      TXT     "Contact-fax: etc"
> >                 IN      TXT     "Contact-key: etc"

Simon Higgs wrote:
> How do you reverse map the contact or registrar information from DNS?

  May I suggest that the dns be the primary repository, and the data
be employed to generate whois, whois+, ldap, etc, etc directories
to allow all the more powerfull search and match operations we
**really don't** want to inflict on the dns.

  RR format makes a powerfull, if inelegant, transfer format, too.

--dave
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