[Ietf-not43] extensibility

[Edward Lewis]

At 7:48 -0500 7/18/03, Eric A. Hall wrote:
>on 7/17/2003 8:07 AM Edward Lewis wrote:
>
>>  PS - I haven't had time to really think though how this plays for
>>  Routing registries.  If anyone can contribute thoughts on this, I'd
>>  appreciate it.
>
>I thought up a good analogy this morning -- the use of multiple IRR
>servers with [crisp] is very similar to the use of blacklists in DNS,

I'm not sure what you mean by a blacklist.  Do you mean a list of 
servers that a client relies upon for answers or a list of clients 
that a server will ignore?

>like DNS. Some applications will want to create their own partitions, but
>others could reuse the public namespace and simply layer on their own
>objectclass definitions at the public leaf nodes, too.

I'm not sure what you mean my partitions wrt DNS.  Like "class" or 
"type" or splitting the names in some way?
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