[registrars] .net thick/thin discussion

[Jens Wagner]

Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine schrieb:

>>Has anyone considered another alternative: depositing the whois at a common
>>third party across all ICANN-contracted TLDs? Not the registries and not the
>>registrars?
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>Paul,
>
>The idea has occured to me. It gets the registry's hands off the IPC-mandated
>data, and adds to the 3rd-party-escrows-or-drop-pools-or-validates-or-...
>possibilities, which I think is desirable. We already see whois clients with
>scoped expertise about the tld population, I don't see any reason why we
>shouldn't also see whois servers with scoped authority about the gtld names.
>
>Eric
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>

The data has to be collected and kept in sync with the remaining 
registry repository, domain and host objects (e.g. the whois data for a 
domain object may not be removed as long as the domain exists, and may 
not be created if the domain does not exist).

The only appropriate way to enforce this is by performing all updates 
through the registry, using EPP again.

This would basically just outsource the whois port 43 to a third party, 
the registry would still use a thick protocol. Every registry-service 
can be outsourced, technically. GNR, the .name registry, has already 
done so.
e.g. According to ARIN, whois.nic.name [198.41.1.47] is located at 
"Network Solutions, Inc.".

Best regards,

Jens Wagner
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