On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 10:31:47PM -0400, J.D. Falk wrote:
On May 7, Kent Crispin <kent@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. -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html