- --------------15FB748359E2B6001CFBAE39-- - ----- End Included Message ----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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