RE: Technical Whois/DNS question (was Re: [ga] Summary ...)

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

|> From: Sandy Harris [mailto:sandy@storm.ca]
|> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:39 AM

|> Is there any good reason whois information is not simply 
|> embedded in DNS?
|> Require every zone to include contact info. Enforce that 
|> with software.
|> Allow optional addition of contact info for each A record.

BIND is supposed to be a light-weight process. That is why it works.
Throwing this additional load in the trasaction could load it beyond
scalability. In fact and in general, the idea doesn't scale.

|> It does, however, neatly avoid the other problems of having 
|> to design and
|> run a centralised whois service.

You sstill don't have to have a centralized service. In fact, it isn't
cetralised now and it works, for various definitions of "works".
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