RE: [registrars] unsanctioned whois concepts (long)

["Tim Ruiz" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ross, point well made. Details on the white list will be coming.
Specifically, our interest in it is driven by whois accuracy concerns.
Parsing whois data for COM/NET transfers has been a weak point in the
process. We hope the white list idea will improve that while not
interfering with various registrars techniques to stop data mining of
port 43.

Tim


-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Wm. Rader [mailto:ross@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 8:08 PM
To: Christopher Ambler
Cc: 'Rick Wesson'; 'Tim Ruiz'; markjr@xxxxxxxxxxx; registrars@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [registrars] unsanctioned whois concepts (long)

On 10/30/2003 4:29 PM Christopher Ambler noted that:

> Nothing prevents bad
> actors from not participating in a whitelisting system like Tim and I
are
> proposing. 

??

We might want to try and keep the discussion focused on the merits of 
the proposal and leave the rhetoric out of it for now...

Unless we have a concrete understanding of the benefits of the proposal,

then I'm afraid then we're destined to become a bad actor - because 
there's no way that we're going to implement something that we don't 
understand.

Towards that goal, I'd like to hear some further clarification on what 
this proposal gets us that we don't already have under current policy.
-- 

                        -rwr








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