Kris is right.
Handles would be fine for the "thin" registries in the world (such as
VeriSign), but since .uk, .tv, .ca, .biz, .info (the list is growing) are
ALL thick registries, it's extremely difficult to make a publicly useable
handle system (without doling out handle contacts for each seperate
registry, which defeats the purpose).
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Kris Benson wrote:
> Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> >
> > > so.... getting back to opensrs, a "profile" is some ID field in the
> > > domain's database record.
> > >
> >
> > No, I don't think so. A profile seems to be "dynamic", it exists only
> > by putting the three variables together: domain/user/password. It
> > doesn't exist any other way and doesn't carry any other data, it's
> > not existing as a database record. And I think, that's the problem
> > which makes managing many domains so awkward.
>
> Unless, of course, you are dealing with .ca's. For some reason, the
> 'profile' under OpenSRS means that we want to use the same CIRA profile as
> that domain, which is, 99% of the time, untrue, causing more Pain and
> Suffering(tm) among .ca RSP's, especially with CIRA's PITA policies.
>
> If you want more details, I can turn this into a rant, but so far, it's
> just been a pesky inconsistency.
>
> -kb
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