RE: [ga] Transfers & WHOIS

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

It has been proven, over a period of decades, in many more networks than the
present Internet, that running code trumps whatever arbitrary policies that
non-coders can come up with, every time. It has to, first and above all,
make sense to the programmers or they will not write the code that way. If
you actually pay the programmers to implement arbitrary policies then other
programmers will write a new version that opens it up to "technical
limits-only" and that's the version that becomes the defacto standard.

Operating under any other assumption has proven to be delusional in the
past, over many instances. Hence, my comments in this area. There are
instance-proofs involving MSFT, IBM, HP, SUN, and DEC, among others.

Implementing policies that are a sub-set of the technical limits has proven
to have limited success in the past and track-record is all that matters.
Unless, you like repeating mistakes and adding to the body of evidence
stating otherwise.

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Dierker [mailto:eric@hi-tek.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 6:53 PM
To: Rick H Wesson
Cc: Jefsey Morfin; ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] Transfers & WHOIS


It is my understanding that this is a TF within the DNSO via the NC. 
Not IETF, ASO or PSO. 
It is therefor very much about the politics and privacy issues of WHOIS and
not so much about the technical aspects.  If I am not mistaken there are
many perfectly acceptable technical applications and the questions to be
resolved are of a social nature, contractual nature, privacy nature and
moral nature. 
I would be interested to see any reference otherwise. 
Sincerely, 
--
This message was passed to you via the ga@dnso.org list.
Send mail to majordomo@dnso.org to unsubscribe
("unsubscribe ga" in the body of the message).
Archives at http://www.dnso.org/archives.html