Shared TLD Daily Digest, Aug 23, 1996 - Part 3

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Date: 22 Aug 1996 20:41:04 -0700
From: "David R. Conrad" 
Subject: Re: yet more unworkable distributed design, was New Non-Shared TLD's Create More Monopolies

Hi,

>Perhaps extend them, ie:
>        internic.net:rs79

The regional registries have been discussing this for a while.
One idea being tossed around is to make handles have the following
format:

-

with the absence of a - defaulting to InterNIC (for
pragmatic reasons).

Examples would be:

XX1-APNIC
XX2-RIPE
XX3-INTERNIC
XX4

The registry tag could then be looked up using the DNS hack I
mentioned in a previous mail and be resolved to the server where the
data was registered (or alternatively, could be reduced to a
resolvable object via rwhois).  There were a couple of other
proposals, e.g.:

handle.
handle@

but people thought these would be confused with domains or email
addresses.

Regards,
- -drc



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Date: 22 Aug 1996 20:50:41 -0700
From: chris@kosh.punk.net (Christopher Ambler)
Subject: Re: yet more unworkable distributed design, was New Non-Shared TLD's Create More Monopolies

I like the idea of HHH-REGISTRY for handles. We've been solving the
problem temporarilly by bypassing handles, assigning them internally,
and requiring new registrations to have complete contact information.
Not something we'd like to stay with.

Christopher Ambler
President, Image Online Design, Inc.


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Date: 22 Aug 1996 22:22:09 -0700
From: Michael Dillon 
Subject: Re: yet more unworkable distributed design, was New Non-Shared TLD's Create More Monopolies

On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, David R. Conrad wrote:

> The regional registries have been discussing this for a while.
> One idea being tossed around is to make handles have the following
> format:
>
> -

If we do have a CDB the handle problem can be solved by having the CDB
allocate them algorithmically just like the Internic.

1. Take initials of contact name, capitalize and concatenate.

2. If already in use, search for greatest handle greater than
   XXX and less than XXXA, remove XXX, add 1, prefix with XXX and use it.

*note: XXX represents the results of step 1.

Therefore my handle might be MD or MD1 or MD27 or MD130 depending
on when I get there.

The main principle is that the CDB is used to prevent handle confusion.


Michael Dillon                   -               ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael@memra.com