IAHC Backtracks on Registrar Lottery

Thu May 8 06:43:19 UTC 1997

On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 10:31:47PM -0400, J.D. Falk wrote:
> On May 7, Kent Crispin <kent at songbird.com> wrote: 
> 
> > On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 11:20:24AM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
>  [ . . . ]
> > > 	You don't register "with" a registrar, you register "through" them
> > > with CORE.  No matter who you register through, it lands in the same data
> > > base.
> > 
> > It is statements like these (which have appeared with some regularity
> > in the past) that make me believe that IAHC/iPOC have in mind a single
> > monolithic database for all TLDs... 
> 
> 	It's called DNS.

It could be DNS -- I wrote a draft suggesting that and submitted it 
to the IAHC, and later implemented shared registry software that does 
exactly that -- but the model currently favored by iPOC etc seems to 
be a commercial database which generates zone files to feed to DNS.  
DNS is run, apparently, by possibly yet another contractor to CORE.

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