Re: CORE Show Stopper

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

Kent and all,

Kent Crispin wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 07:51:37PM -0500, Richard J. Sexton wrote:
> > At 04:22 PM 11/29/97 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
> >
> > >This issue has been known for a *long* time, and registrar collusion
> > >is one of the central design concerns of the CORE registry design...
> >
> > Oh, good. I feel better now.
> >
> > Gimme a break. Any one of those registrars given half the chance
> > would simply take all the names.
> 
> Perhaps so.  But of course, the other 86 registrars might be a little
> miffed if they did.  Any registrar that hoards names takes away
> potential profit from the other registrars.  Any small group of
> colluding registrars is acting against the selfish interests of all
> the other registrars.  The registrars are in competition with each
> other, so small scale collusion is self-policing.

  I cannot believe that you really believe that an illeagle act,
(Collusion), is self-policing!  Unbelivable!  I am sure that the 
U.S. Justice department would very much disagree with you here,
as I do.  Collusion, either large or small benifits no one.  
> 
> Large scale collusion is a different problem.  What protects you
> against that are three things:  1) keeping secrets among many players is
> very difficult,  2) the effects of large scale collusion would be
> visible, and 3) the POC and PAB are explicit checks against this kind
> of thing.

  What kind of checks?  Please be spicific.  I see none in the
MoU.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Money is not an acceiptible replacment for a clue in terms
> > of controlling a vital piece of Infrastructure. Or had
> > you not noticed that of the 93+ CORE'ites very few of them
> > could actually operate a nameserver?
> 
> 1) False.  2) Registrars don't operate nameservers; CORE operates the
> nameservers.

  Hummmmm?  I thought CORE was the collection of the registrars?
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Mockapetris[1] was dead-on when he said last year IAHC stifles
> > innovation - we simply replace the only proprietary piece of
> > the Internet (NSI's domreg system) with a *different* proprietory
> > piece (Emergents system).
> 
> Last I heard, the software being developed by Emergent will be placed
> in the public domain, under something like a BSD or GNU or Artistic
> style license.  This was strongly supported in the RFP, and I think
> it is a condition of the contract (though I don't know for sure.)

  Well at least this is a fairly good idea.  However unecessary it
is anyway in that the software is already avalible.
> 
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