Re: Contact and registrat info (was Anti Capitalism)

[Paul Svensson <paul@svensson.org>]

On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Simon Higgs wrote:

>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.

Why should anything about 3rd or 4rth level domains be available by whois
from a TLD registrar ?  All that's needed is the information about the
2LDs registered, and that's flat.  The discussion before was whether to
keep this at the central repository or at the registrars -- I don't see
any reason to try to push towards Vixie's distributed directory ideas
at this point.

My opinion is that any central repository needs to be kept as small
as possible, to avoid creating a new monopoly situation.

	/Paul