On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Karl Denninger wrote:
IAHC's proposal fixes the problem folks are seeing with NS today.
No it doesn't.
If you register with someone, pay them, and they claim never to have received payment you're just as screwed. They hold or delete your record and you end up paying again.
My understanding is that the precise protocol used to register a new name has not been frozen yet. This issue can be addressed if CORE requires a non-repudiable transaction from a registrar in order to register a domain or to update its payment status. And even if the IAHC were so foolish as to not consider this possibility they certainly did create a Policy Oversight Committee that can change procedures at any time. http://www.iahc.org/draft-iahc-recommend-00.html Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com