Re: [IFWP] Re: DOJ investigating NSI

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kent Crispin writes:

> OTOH, users have a *real* incentive to keep at least their billing 
> contact information up to date.  This spills over to keeping the 
> other contact data for a SLD at least somewhat up-to-date.

.NA applicants have a *REAL* incentive to keep their SOA information
up to date, lest their visibility on the DNS goes to K*nt-Land.

> So, while RP and "postmaster" are nice ideas, in practice they will 
> never be as useful as "whois" data that is tied to the real business 
> identity of the registrant.

postmaster and SOA are RFC mandated. 

AND, as you are so fond of Registrars and shared registration
protocols it's trivial to do by the Registrar come application time.

> How this data is maintained and accessed is really just a technical
> detail, though it needs to be standardized -- you could embed it in
> DNS TXT records, or run separate oracle servers gated to port 43, or
> whatever.

Gosh, they'd like that. An RFC mandating Oracle servers on a well
known service port. Great stuff, 8 on the K*nt Meter.

el