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[David Cake]

I agree with Andrew. We should not be specifying source of data at this point. Maybe we’ll get to it in Phase 2, but even then we may decide that the system should not specify all possible methods of sourcing data. 

Davud

> On 2 May 2017, at 9:47 pm, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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> Andrew Sullivan
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