[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] a suggestion for "purpose in detail"

[David Cake]

> On 22 Mar 2017, at 11:26 am, Rob Golding <rob.golding at astutium.com> wrote:
> 
>> For instance, if we don't make
>> authoritative nameservers fully public without gates, we break the
>> internet. I don't mean that as hyperbole, I mean no internet except
>> for the savants who can us IP addresses for everything.
> 
> Not this again .... no matter how many times it's repeated it will always remain utter nonsense as a justification/use/need for rds....
> 
> WHOIS/RDS is *NOT* in anyway necessary for the 'functioning' of the internet, it is not how dns works, it is not how nameservers are found, it is not used at all in determining the authoritive nameservers.
> 
> IP to Domain, Domain to IP resolving will work just fine exactly as it does now if whois was just 'turned off' because it does not use whois.

	Isn’t that assuming that IP:domain is a one to one correspondence, which is not at all true of the modern internet?
	
	David