Re: [wg-c] Specific Implementation Proposal: [Was:Re: nineprinciplesfor domain names]

["Kevin J. Connolly" <CONNOLLK@rspab.com>]

Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com> 02/23/00 12:12AM wrote:

>> Since there already exists a thoroughly-tested implementation of a 
>> shared registration system

>If you are referring to the thing that is used to "share" the NSI operated
>registry for .com/.net/.edu, then may I suggest that it be used as a model
>of "how not to do it".

>From a technical perspective the current SRS design is underspecified
>(i.e. there are parts that are not documented), inadequate (e.g. it
>doesn't know time zones or IPv6), and it is arguably subject to
>manipulation by less-than scrupulous registrars.

>		--karl--

Good God.  ROFLMAO.  It's been three years since 
I last shilled for NSI :-)  (Unpaid, at that :-)  

No, I'm not talking about the 
NSI abomination.  I'm talking about the CORE SRS 
which was intended (at the time I stopped
being a CORE insider) to be open source.  I would 
not mind inserting a requirement for open source 
code as a precondition for letting *anyone* run the testbed.  
Nor, at this point, do I think that any rational participant in 
the process should object to open source code if it gets the 
fat lady onstage for the end of the first act.

I do know that the CORE SRS code has been beaten 
to death by engineers seeking to . . .  well, I'm not going to
go into the rationale of the CORE vetting process,
escpecially since my inside info is nearly two years 
out of date; but I know the engineers who flogged
the CORE SRS, and I don't doubt for a moment that
the bugs have been found and fixed.  And I was 
involved, rather intimately, in the design of the anti-
shenanigans architecture of the system.

And so far as international sensitivity as opposed to 
ugly Americanism, those who are familiar with my work
know that (a) I am an EC citizen [dual citizenship, 
actually] and (b) I pay very close attention to the needs
of people from outside North America, even though that
has been known to erode my political support.  I just
happen to believe in doing things right.  Like Gabe Battista 
and Don Heath, I do not intend to participate in fouling up 
the Internet beyond all hope of redemption.

Kevin J. Connolly
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