Re: [weirds] I-D Action: draft-hollenbeck-dnrd-ap-query-00.txt

[Eric Brunner-Williams <[e-mail]>]

On 5/1/12 11:43 AM, John R. Levine wrote:
> That horse left the barn a decade ago.  If you sign up for zone file
> access, you get all of the name servers and all of the IPs.  This
> feature would just make it available to people who aren't able to
> download and index the entire multi-gigabyte .COM zone file.

you really could be less indirect about identifying the least policy
business model, and the specific instance of the least policy business
model, for which the association of names to addresses is not only not
one-to-one, but names-of-rights-of-others-interest to addresses is
more than one to one.

this is a cnobi problem, and overwhelmingly a .com problem, and so not
a general problem for which a solution -- likely to be imposed by a
frequently problematic actor upon a vastly larger set of registries,
independent of business model, or market share.

> In the unlikely event that there are legal constraints on the data
> that a registrar returns, they'll always be able to return an error
> code that means "we can't answer that question."

"rar returns", a typo?

if an operator is advised that a jurisdiction exists in which such a
constraint exists, how could it partition its response to allow an
error code and other data?

> Regards from someone who does download and index the .COM zone file,

likewise, and some others.

-e