Re: CORE Show Stopper

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

Jim and all,

Jim Dixon wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Kent Crispin wrote:
> 
> > > It would not totally prevent the scenario, because anyone can lie and
> > > say the name is taken after checking and seeing that it is not.  But
> > > it will also be knowable that it is not possible to check and get a
> > > false negative, so the scenario of someone signing up for a domain and
> > > later being told "oops" isn't likely to occur to a well educated public.
> >
> > This issue has been known for a *long* time, and registrar collusion
> > is one of the central design concerns of the CORE registry design...
> 
> It was?  I recall no discussion at all of this issue in Munich, New
> York, or on the RFP team's email list.  It was certainly not a central
> design concept.

  This was my understanding as well.  Well Kent?  Got an answer?
> 
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