---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Aug 1996 12:34:41 -0700 From: Kent Crispin Subject: Re: DNS based proposal for shared tlds Richard J. Sexton allegedly said: > > At 09:37 AM 8/24/96 -0700, you wrote: > >On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, John R Levine wrote: > > > >> >The current proposals swirl around the idea of an ad hoc central > >> >database that is used for coordination between registries. What > >> >follows is an alternate approach that does not use any central > >> >database except for DNS itself. [reasonable proposal omitted] > >> > >> This makes the DNS the CDB. > > > >This is a positively GROSS idea. Adding kludges to kludges.... > > If you give it some serious thought, you'll see a certain > brilliace to this idea. > > Maybe you won't... do try though. Thanks for the implied compliment, but I don't think it's that clever - -- the cleverness comes from the work that is being done in DNS. But in all honesty, I do get the impression that people aren't really giving it much thought... I sent mail to Vixie, asking if a version of BIND with the new features would be available in a stable enough form for us to do test a trial implementation of shared tlds using it, and whether the ixfr protocol was intended to support the fairly high transaction rates we have discussed. He said "Absolutely". But I am not going to bother him again until I have digested all the drafts -- there is a whole lot there. - -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com,kc@llnl.gov the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B6 04 CC 30 9E DE CD FE 6A 04 90 BB 26 77 4A 5E
