On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 05:14:28PM +0100, Volker Greimann wrote:
Heretic thought of the day: We will probably be looking at a thin/distributed model again, or at least a model where data does not leave certain jurisdictions without legitimate reasons/justification.
As I have argued repeatedly, the only justifications for centralisation and "thick" registries in the first place were (1) deficiencies in the whois protocol that made distributed operation hard and (2) bad-actor registrars who wouldn't keep their data in good shape. (1) is, of course, solved by ditching whois for a better protocol, which protocol we already have built and waiting for use. One could even put a whois "gloss" on such a protocol (which would in that case, of course, only hand out the minimal data), so that people's tools don't all break overnight. This is all well understood by anyone remotely familiar with network operations (cf. Scott H's excellent testbed). (2) is, of course, not solved at all by centralisation, since the (competent) bad actors just lie when they upload the data. There never was an advantage there, as anyone familiar with network fraud told people even at the time. So I don't think the idea is heretical at all. I think it's a good idea. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@anvilwalrusden.com