[16409] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The world ended an hour ago. Where)
Fri Apr 24 14:43:21 1998
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 14:11:59 -0400
From: "The world ended an hour ago. Where were you?" <sjsobol@devel.nacs.net>
To: "David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net>
Cc: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>,
"Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>,
nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199804241020.TAA20308@teckla.apnic.net>; from David R. Conrad on Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 06:58:16PM +0800
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 06:58:16PM +0800, David R. Conrad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >Wouldn't it make more sense if registry data was handled similar to DNS?
>
> Right. As I said previously, its just a small matter of programming (e.g.,
> see rwhois).
>
> There are a couple of issues, however:
>
> a) if the registry database is used to provide contact information to help
> resolve network problems (a stretch, I know :-)), and the only way you can
> obtain the contact information is via the network, then if the network is
> broken to the place you need to get to to find the contact information...
> (yes, caching and seconarying can solve this issue)
>
> b) quality assurance -- how much can you trust the people you delegate
> authority to manage the data
> (yes, strong QA control can solve this issue)?
>
> My personal past experience has shown both of these to be a problem.
And they're a problem with the current WHOIS which is used for DNS
registrations, but we still use WHOIS to look up domain information. I say,
let's put the thing into place, because it IS a workable (if not perfect)
solution, and we can always make improvements.
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