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[Jamyn Shanley <jshanley AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Sam Dodrill <shadow.h511 AT gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Brian Koontz <brian AT opennicproject.org> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 01:01:32PM -0500, Jamyn Shanley wrote:
> I think this situation presents a great case for central registration, or
> at least automated mirroring of registration data to a central repository.

Umm...the wiki database *is* the central repo, at least as far as
T1/T2 registrations are concerned.

I don't think you understand. I'm talking about user details. Think WHOIS data. Of course the DNS data itself is replicated, but that's not what I'm talking about at all.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Brian Koontz <brian AT opennicproject.org> wrote:

In that case, this would probably require some sort of proposal to the

membership, as it has always been OpenNIC's policy that TLDs are
administered by the T1 ops. Not that I am against this; it's been
brought up before and probably needs to be brought up again.

I'm not suggesting the TLDs be administered by a single source. I'm suggesting replication of the user records for any TLD, presumably to a central opennic server/repo. In other words, the TLD owner would still maintain them, but if they blew up / disappeared / were unresponsive, there wouldn't be a total loss of that data.