Re: [apps-discuss] "finding registered domains"

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:07:45AM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> 
> The way I would word this problem is that any protocol that depends on
> more than 5% of parties to deploy before it provides value is doomed
> and to be successful it probably needs to provide value at a much
> lower deployment.

I think the proposal I offer needs no more work by anyone tht your
proposal, and its deployment costs are exactly the same.  The only
difference between them is that the proposal I've made covers more
cases because it doesn't depend on the dodgy "public delegation point"
notion.  That's not the problem you have.  For instance, my employer
(Dyn) operates a service in dyndns.org that accepts host names from
customers and puts them in a zone.  There is no delegation.  Yet
almost every name in the dyndns.org zone is in a different
administrative realm.  If SOPA existed, we could signal this by
putting a SOPA record with the root target at dyndns.org.  None of our
customers would need to do anything.

Best,

A
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