Re: Transfering a domain

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Rick H. Wesson allegedly said:
> 
> On Jan 8,  2:03pm, davidk@ISI.EDU wrote:
> >
> > My light-weight proposal solves this rather elegantly:
[...]

> David,
> 
> Under this model you are asking the repository to interface directly
> with the general public, and that the repository now manage public
> keys for a wide range of individuals. This extends the scope of the
> CORE db quite a bit. So now the repository must manage a global
> public key ring? Do they need a RAID for that ;-)
> 
> IMHO if CORE ended up manageing a global public key ring, which they must
> for Davids proposal to work, CORE could become vastly more important in that
> function than in manageing a central domain database. Cool idea!

I think David had a much simpler thing in mind -- unfortunately, it
doesn't work...I am not even sure that a vast global public key ring
would work, unless you completely give over control of the db records
to the end user.  Now *that's* an interesting idea. 

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