To:
Karl Auerbach <karl@CaveBear.com>
Cc:
<ietf-provreg@cafax.se>
From:
Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
Date:
Wed, 27 Dec 2000 07:35:07 -0800
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<Pine.LNX.4.30.0012270158400.1888-100000@p2.cavebear.com>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: Comments on overall direction
At 02:07 AM 12/27/00 -0800, Karl Auerbach wrote: > > It would help to have a description of an existing service that has similar > > scale and scope, that uses a similar mechanism. > >A bill of lading. It's a technique that's been in use since about the >year 1500. Sorry for my serious lack of completeness. I mean Internet-based service, or the technological equivalent. >It's not a big extension to conceive of a digitally signed object that >represents an instruction to perform some action on some asset - such as a >domain name. Indeed, we are part way there with the PGP signed domain >update forms that we use today. PGP is used in very small scale, in Internet terms. d/ =-=-=-=-= Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com> Brandenburg Consulting <www.brandenburg.com> Tel: +1.408.246.8253, Fax: +1.408.273.6464