-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joe Abley wrote:
That's a little over-broad considering the number of registries there are (and have been, for a long time). I think it's fair to say that even if this was once the case for COM/NET/ORG registries, there are many more registries where this was never close to being true.
It seems to me that if someone else chooses to insert 32- or 128-bit integers of their choice into their zone files, then there's properly very little I can or should be able to do about it. But that's just me.
You are indeed correct. There is also no good efficient way to know if someone is allowed to use a particular IP address, or will have the right for the life of an extended contract (like a 10 year DNS registration). As an engineer, I believe we would need a protocol that would permit someone to query an IP address to ask what DNS domains it may be an NS for. A simple client server response protocol. Lack of a response would mean "all are welcome here." Sort of the analogue of "robots.txt" for webservers. Then if you wanted to disclaim a domain, you setup a server and notify the registrar of the offending domain. Now as a practical matter, I don't see this happening any time soon. This is simply because this is a lot of mechanism for a problem that I doubt many people have. -Jeff - -- ============================================================================= Jeffrey I. Schiller MIT Network Manager Information Services and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room W92-190 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 617.253.0161 - Voice jis@mit.edu ============================================================================ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDyXCg8CBzV/QUlSsRAon/AKD6k5Qd1p8jUqGxWEHKYbLec9GgtgCg6bTN GMITL/Fk0qm9sWu4A/M4suA= =88Yt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----