Re: Proposal Two: Sample Meta Registrar

[David Collier-Brown <davecb@Canada.Sun.COM>]

Aveek Datta wrote:
> David Collier-Brown said
> >   I did an early proof of concept of a socket protocol, and a
> > very bad web interface to that, then suspended work pending
> > a clear indication of what to do in the exceptional cases.
> >   It's not terribly interesting, except for the ease with
> > which one can do simple things like this: the man page for
> > sdmpd follows
> 
> What are the exceptional cases you speak about?  The only cases I can think
> of are the borderline cases of two requests coming in at exactly the same
> time. 

  I wasn't thinking about race conditions at all, actually.

  Tne exceptional cases were people wishing to shut down
domains, or move to different registrars, and registrars wishing to
shut down domains for nonpayment and the like.  Allocations is easy:
the other stuff is harder.  I posed the problem in 
<A HREF="http://java.science.yorku.ca/~davecb/tld/model.html"> 
Modelling the Process</A>, which (alas!) implicitly assumed that
registrars rented out domains annually.  The rest of the model
works, though, and can be turned into a specification which is
amenable to analysis (albeit by brigther people than I!)

--dave
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