Re: Contact and registrat info (was Anti Capitalism)

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 7:44 AM -0500 1/3/97, David Collier-Brown wrote:

> 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.
>

But where is this information created and stored before it generates
the whois info? If it's in a host record within a zone/domain name
table, how does it get back into whois? It's easy for whois to contain
this info for an entire zone delegation, but, being hierarchical, how
do the records for 3LD & 4LDs get recorded by a central whois? These
host records are outside the control of a central whois authority.


Regards,

Simon

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