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[Quinn Wood <woodq11 AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 15:46, Brian Koontz <brian AT opennicproject.org> wrote:
> Peter--
>
> Actually, this has been discussed, and I know of at least one T2
> server that is "subscription only."  My T2's require occasional hits
> on OpenNIC domains before ICANN domains are resolved.
>
> The vast majority of traffic handled by most T2's is for
> ICANN-namespace domains.  It has never been the intent of OpenNIC to
> compete with the likes of Google and OpenDNS as public nameservers
> simply for the sake of being a public nameserver.  And we (the admins)
> have had extensive discussions over how to rank T2's based upon
> "trust."
>
> With LDAP in place, I can see a central registry being set up that
> would allow T2 operators to optionally allow access only to registered
> IP addresses.  I don't know how feasible this would be, so I'll have
> to let the LDAP experts chime in on this one.
>
>  --Brian

I'm no expert, but I do know walled gardens can be more ugly than open ones.