On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 02:31:38PM +0100, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
> > Being a TLD administrator, you know as well as I do that the info in
> > the SOA record isn't always correct, and postmaster@ addresses don't
> > always work.
>
> That is totally besides the point.
Nope. It is precisely the point.
> According to the RFC's the SOAs *HAVE* to be correct.
So what? That doesn't make them correct.
[..]
> No, there may be a real *ADMINISTRATIVE* need for those.
There certainly is.
> There is *NO*
> RFC (that I am aware of) *REQUIRING* a WHOIS data base.
Irrelevant. Many real-word requirements don't appear in the RFCs.
[...]
> The point remains, that there is no technical requirement and no RFC
> requireing a Registry to provide this data, free of charge or
> otherwise.
But there is a practical administrative requirement. Such
requirements frequently are not codified in RFCs.
> It also follows that NSI might very well have an
> intellectual property claim here.
No, it doesn't "follow". The statements are completely independent.
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