Re: [registrars] TF2 draft last call

[Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas,

It may be the "general view of the Registrar Constituency that ..."

	the WHOIS service was originally was solely established to
	be able to reachsolely to facilitate contacts for a technical
	person in case a domain setup causes problems to the public.

But this is an incorrect view. The original service was established to
facilitate communication between users of the ARPA and MIL networks
and their attached hosts, during a period when it was simply impossible
to "cause problems to the public" via "domain setup", as every domain
application went through Jake Feinler's shop at SRI-NIC.

The KREMVAX incident used uucp addressing, ...!kremvax!chernenko, and
trademarks didn't exist in the DNS.

It is simply goofy to put the IPC morons in invisibility suits riding
time-machine tricycles and carroming around the hallways of SRI and Mike
St. John's office at the Pentagon, when they simply didn't exist. The
more correct recitation of facts is that 954 was repurposed, not that it
had the same or similar purpose that the IPC morons impose upon it now.

Cheers,
Eric