Re: Merging RRP and Whois
Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <[email protected]>
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Karl,
As I mentioned earlier, when used as intended, whois repurposes and
redistributes registrant-originated data. It isn't "customer as status
querier" (which I think means registrant) but non-registrant, e.g.,
Acxiom, or DoubleClick or, ...
I understand, but don't share, the view that identification/authentication
of both the querier and the responder are bigger issues than what our
friends in Europe refreshingly refer to as "data self-determination".
Failing over to a policy server, a la Shai Herzog's original paper, is a
fine idea, but (presumably) is unnecessary within the ICANN scope of an
RRP, where policy is reasonably finite and well-known. How useful it may
be where the restriction on query initiators is removed ("public" whois)
is TBD.
I also agree that with only 67 or so ICANN approved Registrars, sneakernet
is a viable trust model.
Eric