On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Zeljko Dimic wrote: > I don't think replacing transfer call with our own emulation would be > step in the right direction. By using emulation, we could be masking > bugs in our code that communicates to the registry, as well as possibly > registry problems. Our emulation may not be perfect, and we may mislead > you to write the code that would work within Horizon, but not in the > Live environment. For these reasons, I'd rather keep horizon as similiar > to operations of the Live system as possible.
Providing certain domains which consistantly exhibit a given behaviour wouldn't prevent the rest of the domain space from functioning normally. So, the communications piece of things would be exactly the same with only a few defined exceptions. By making those exceptions function in predictable ways you significantly increase the ability of people to automatically test client code and the rest of horizon up to the point where the shortcut is implemented. So, bugs in communication to the registry would not be masked. It's quite difficult for me to conceive of how any of this would lead to code which works on horizon, but fails on live. If there is some circituitous set of circumstances that anyone could imagine allowing that to happen, shouldn't verifying that you've successfully avoided such an error be straight forward? If this is something that Tucows remains immovably opposed to there still seems to be a persuasive enough case to push for the various test registries (or at least one) to implement this. The example of having certain credit card numbers available which have predictable behaviours shows that it's not only a desirable feature, but implementable without adversely affecting the ability to test end-to-end operation. Tucows is obviously in a much better position to persuade some registry to implement this than we mere resellers. -- </chris> The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -Robert Maynard Hutchins, educator (1899-1977)
