RE: Thick vs.thin (was: [ga] Casting stones)

["Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>]

While the thick registry is certainly convenient from a management point
of view, the cost to the network likely exceeds the value of the
savings...



                       -rwr




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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org] On Behalf 
> Of Stephane Bortzmeyer
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 10:07 AM
> To: Rick Wesson; Joop Teernstra; Michael Froomkin - U.Miami 
> School of Law; Gary Osbourne; DannyYounger@cs.com; ga@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: Thick vs.thin (was: [ga] Casting stones)
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:46:46AM +0200,
>  Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> wrote 
>  a message of 30 lines which said:
> 
> > With the thick model (when implemented from the beginning of a TLD),
> > the registry can go jurisdiction shopping in order to be able to  
> > implement whatever privacy policy they like.  
> 
> I'm not sure it is effective. For instance, ICANN 
> accreditation for a registrar in .com requires the registrar 
> to escrow a copy ot its database to ICANN (I do not know how 
> many comply). Therefore, US rules apply to everybody, 
> whatever the registrar it chooses.
> 
> > (Ever thought about
> > what happens when you put a thick registry into a country with  
> > strict privacy regulations?)
> 
> The future .eu will work that way (thick and under "strict" 
> privacy regulations). Registrants who find these regulations 
> too strict ("I want to give away my personal data") can 
> always transmit them by themselves :-)
> 
> > With the thin model, the customer can go jurisdiction shopping when
> > selecting the registrar.  
> 
> The .eu registry will probably (people in Brussels still think about
> it) implement a different model, where people will be able to 
> express their privacy desires (may be with P3P 
> <URL:http://www.w3.org/P3P/)>. Two contenders for the 
> management of the Registry, CORE and us, are working on a 
> common proposal (do not hold your breath, there are 
> complicated technical and political
> issues) for expressing privacy requirments.
> 
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