To:
Daniel Manley <dmanley@tucows.com>
CC:
"'ietf-provreg@cafax.se'" <ietf-provreg@cafax.se>, Eric Brunner <brunner@nic-naa.net>
From:
Klaus Malorny <Klaus.Malorny@knipp.de>
Date:
Wed, 05 Sep 2001 15:46:58 +0200
Sender:
owner-ietf-provreg@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: Questions about containers
Daniel Manley wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm reposting this since I haven't seen a reply yet. If I missed the
> reply somehow, could someone please send it to me or repost it to the list?
>
> Many thanks,
> Dan
>
> Daniel Manley wrote:
>
> > Eric,
> >
Even for the case that I make myself even more unpopular, I would like to add
two simple questions to the good questions raised by Daniel:
Do the benefits you expect from containers legitimate the enormous amount of
complexity they add to a registry, registrar or reseller system (as they
introduce hierarchical/recursive data structures)? Do you think the normal
end-user is able to understand this concept?
Still, the spec is confusing to me. Some terms are used in a way that is
unfamilar to _me_, the initial ASCII art graphic suggests something different
than what is described in the text. But I will try harder.
As far as I understand the document, the graph should look more like:
+-------------+
| Container 1 |--------+ +--------------+
+-------------+ +-->| Registrant 1 | "child" objects,
| | +--------------+ properties????
| |
| | +--------------+
| +-->| Host 1 |
| ........>+--------------+
+-------------+ .
| Container 2 |--------+ +--------------+
+-------------+ . +-->| Contact 1 |
| ........>+--------------+
| .
+------------------------------------+
| . |
| |derived +-------------+
| |objects???? | Container 4 |
+-------------+ . +-------------+
| Container 3 |--------+
+-------------+ . | +--------------+
| . +-->| Host 2 |
| .....|..>+--------------+
| . |
| . | +--------------+
| . +-->| Registrant 2 |
| ........>+--------------+
+-------------+ .
| "linked" |....
| Object ???? |--------+
+-------------+ | +--------------+
+==>| addl. objects|
+--------------+
regards,
Klaus Malorny
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