[Ietf-not43] -02 requirements draft

[Leslie Daigle]

Nope -- non-centralization does not prevent global
queries.

See the references in 

http://lists.verisignlabs.com/pipermail/ietf-not43/2002-July/000157.html

Leslie.


"Eric A. Hall" wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Eric A. Hall                                        http://www.ehsco.com/
> Internet Core Protocols          http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

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