Re: Anti Capitalism?

[davidk@ISI.EDU]

Rick,

> Rick H. Wesson writes :
> 
> If the data resides in the central repository then why not run a whois service
> there. If you want to distribute it via (r)whois referals have to at least be
> centralized. the current rwhois implementation is lacking in several aspects
> and IMHO shouldn't be used till it is more robust. Infact most of the
> rwhois stuff does not get updated nearly as much as the whois database,
> which is on a 24 hour cycle.

If the data resides on the central repository you are right.

My point is that I don't want to store the whois related data in the
central repository.

You don't need rwhois to support the referral that I am suggesting. A
much simpler (whois compatible) adaptation of whois will do. In fact, I
have ideas (and plans) to do something like this for the RIPE IP &
routing registry implementation ... I can assure you that it can be a
very simple adaption as long as the central repository is accessible with
a similar simple mechanism like an ftp'able file, extremely simple whois
service (request for domain name tells you a pointer to a registrar for
more info), DNS or any other extremely simple mapping service.

Note that the scalability properties of the central repository become
much, much better if it doesn't contain whois data (it would not amaze me
if Karl Denninger (or me) could implement it for under $100,000.- on a
single high end Linux machine ;-)) since the whois data tends to be much
more often updated and queried for then the DNS data (I have seen the
statistics at RIPE). This will also make a 'flat' fee mechanism much more
tenable *and* will give another cost cut since flat fees are much cheaper
to administrate (You don't want to know how expensive and complicated
international money transfers are ...),

David K.
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