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[Brian Koontz <brian AT opennicproject.org>]

Quinn, I wouldn't call such a setup a "walled garden."  That implies
exclusive membership.  The garden is still open; you just have to open
the gate yourself.

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 08:12:23PM -0500, Quinn Wood wrote:
> 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.

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