[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] authoritative

[Andrew Sullivan]

Hi,

On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 08:12:51AM -0400, Sam Lanfranco wrote:
>  * Where should DoR reside? Centralized vs. distributed Source of
>    Record (SoR)?

I'm still not sure I understand why we care about this.  The lesson of
DNSSEC and Tor and blockchain and every actually-scalable file
distribution system we've built since at least the 1990s is that you
don't need to care about where you get it from, _if_ you can be sure
that the data is correct.  One way to do that in _implementation_ is
to worry about the source whence you obtain the data, but that's not
the important question in terms of ensuring that you have the right data.

I think worrying about the SoR is therefore specifying implementation
or architecture rather than specifying policy, and therefore I think
we shouldn't do that.

>  * Whatever it is called, DoR from SoR is "the data"

But we don't actually need to define it this way, as I posted
yesterday, and that gets us out of needing to specify the SoR.  I
really like your idea about the DoR, but I think the SoR is a mistake.

Best regards,

A

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