Re: [IFWP] Re: DOJ investigating NSI

[Richard J. Sexton]

At 05:10 PM 5/7/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Richard,
>
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Richard J. Sexton" writes:
>
>> Buf, if there were TXT records in the zone at the namesevrer
>> that served the domain that would decentralise whois nicely.
>
>What different is this from following established, RFC mandated
>procedures and maintain a proper SOA?
>
>> The change to the whois client would be trivial and we wouldnt see
>> NSI dying because of attacks on whois.
>
>Why *MUST* we force someone to publish more data about himself then
>absolutely necessary? 

I don't think we should but some people wanr to publish
name, address, phone number etc and don't expect people
to email the contact in the SOA record to get that.


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