[9214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IAHC Backtracks on Registrar Lottery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Crispin)
Thu May 8 03:01:45 1997
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 23:43:19 -0700
From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 10:31:47PM -0400, J.D. Falk wrote:
> On May 7, Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 11:20:24AM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
> [ . . . ]
> > > You don't register "with" a registrar, you register "through" them
> > > with CORE. No matter who you register through, it lands in the same data
> > > base.
> >
> > It is statements like these (which have appeared with some regularity
> > in the past) that make me believe that IAHC/iPOC have in mind a single
> > monolithic database for all TLDs...
>
> It's called DNS.
It could be DNS -- I wrote a draft suggesting that and submitted it
to the IAHC, and later implemented shared registry software that does
exactly that -- but the model currently favored by iPOC etc seems to
be a commercial database which generates zone files to feed to DNS.
DNS is run, apparently, by possibly yet another contractor to CORE.
--
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