Re: Transfering a domain

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Kent and all,

  I am sorry, but I just have to jump in here.  A public key system
is th best way for this to work.  If you assign an attribute or 
extension to the public key that restrics the type of access,
than there will be no actual updating to the db, only read 
capability.

Kent Crispin wrote:
> 
> Rick H. Wesson allegedly said:
> >
> > On Jan 8,  4:21pm, Kent Crispin wrote:
> [some stuff]
> > If you are to allow the end user to manage his/her contact data, how
> > is that diferent from what we have with NSI. The registries have to have
> > some function beyone pure allocation of names.
> >
> > If end-users have to come to the folks that run the CORE db then the
> > costs to run the CORE db will increase. I believe some were tring to
> > keep the cost  management/running of the CORE db as small as possable.
> 
> I actually favor DavidK's idea of a lightweight registry, and I
> actually have something similar to it implemented now.  I have no
> desire to have users change a central database directly -- that would
> be nuts.
> 
> I just don't think the public key idea works.

Regards,
-- 
Jeffrey A. Williams
DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java Development Eng.
Information Eng. Group. 
Phone :972-447-1878
E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com