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On Thu, Mar 20, 1997 at 08:06:16PM -0800, Michael Dillon wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Karl Denninger wrote: > > > > IAHC's proposal fixes the problem folks are seeing with NS today. > > > > No it doesn't. > > > > If you register with someone, pay them, and they claim never to have > > received payment you're just as screwed. They hold or delete your > > record and you end up paying again. > > My understanding is that the precise protocol used to register a new name > has not been frozen yet. This issue can be addressed if CORE requires a > non-repudiable transaction from a registrar in order to register a domain > or to update its payment status. > > And even if the IAHC were so foolish as to not consider this possibility > they certainly did create a Policy Oversight Committee that can change > procedures at any time. So what? The registrar claims you haven't paid and didn't submit the non-repudiable transaction (because they claim it didn't happen). You have a cancelled check. This is precisely the situation people are claiming is happening to them. Again, the problem isn't payments being posted that didn't happen, its payments made which *didn't get posted*. Non-repudiation doesn't help this situation; that's a control on *positive* events, not ones which people claim didn't occur. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | 99 Analog numbers, 77 ISDN, Web servers $75/mo Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "[email protected]" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | 2 FULL DS-3 Internet links; 400Mbps B/W Internal - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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