At 6:17 PM -0400 09/18/2003, Dean Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 hardie(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com wrote:
At 8:51 AM -0700 09/18/2003, Bill Manning wrote:
> ok, what about DoC & ICANN agreements w/ VSGN giving them
> the authority to continue to register in and publish
> the .COM and .NET domains? That looks like an entitlment to me.
Think it from a set theory perspective for a second. They have been
given the contract to populate a set (*registered* domains in COM. and
NET.) and publish that set (through DNS, ftp-able zone files, whois,
phone calls and so on). For this publication method, this behavior
eliminates the ability to determine whether the item is in or out of the
set. This has a couple of consequences:
DNS, Zone files, etc, are not acceptable means to query the set.
If you believe this, we are starting from such different views of the world
that there isn't much point in us trying to convince each other. Indeed,
I find it hard to understand what you think the set is for.
Ted