Re: Transfering a domain

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 4:21 PM -0800 1/8/97, Kent Crispin wrote:

> 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.
>

What? You mean allow the end user to do their own registration
information and DNS? We can't allow the unwashed to get involved in the
sanctimonious ceremonies and rituals of the PGP-Priests Of CORE.

Did anybody even think to develop this from the users point of view?

Didn't think so.

Now might be a good time to bone up on some HUMAN INTERFACE guidelines.

[Sigh]

Regards,

Simon

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