[Ietf-not43] -02 requirements draft

[Eric A. Hall]

on 11/6/2002 4:57 PM Leslie Daigle wrote:

> As for the "all domains owned by Joe Example", we've heard this 
> requirement from both IPR and law enforcement communities.  

They're going to be disappointed. This group made a concious decision to
pursue a distributed model some time back.

What is being asked is akin to asking for all of the PTR RRs everywhere in
DNS (including privates) that have host.example.com in the RRdata. You can
either cache everything in a catalog server and hope that the data was
entered willingly, accurately and timely, or you can lookup
host.example.com directly and hope that the returned A RRs are a useful
enough subset for what you want. Neither of those scenarios is liar-proof.

Option 3 is to setup another branch of Internet governance, which we have
specifically walked away from.

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