[77294] in North American Network Operators' Group
Registrar and registry backend processes.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Loftis)
Mon Jan 17 17:48:19 2005
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:47:50 -0700
From: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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I think, briefly, that we need to force Verisign and the registrars to be
FAR more public about the backend process for WHOIS data and for the TLD
zone data. Especially with .com, .net, and probably .org, and this latest
failure of 'the system' and the obvious lack of information on 'the system.'
It's clearly broken, and needs to be put up for public review by 'the
powers that be' so that it can be fixed. What's happening now feels close
to a boiler room poker game, noone seems to know all the players, and even
fewer know all the rules, so in the end everyone is a loser.
I know this is adding fuel to the proverbial fire, but apparently we need
to burn out this thing so we don't get scorched by yet another unexpected
fire.
