Re: Handling of External Host Objects

[Daniel Manley <dmanley@tucows.com>]

And from out of nowhere...  ;)

Hollenbeck, Scott a écrit:

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>This solution does not allow object-based management of external hosts,
>which means that renaming the external host would need to be done on a
>per-name basis.  It may address the other issues that people have talked
>about on this thread, though.
>
I see how this could resolve/avoid a lot of potential problems 
(transfers, ownership, etc), but with these new gTLDs, I would guess 
that the majority of nameservers in use are non-authoritative to the 
registries, so registrars would lose the ability to do mass updates as 
with nameservers as objects.  I don't think I would want to give this 
up.  As a registrar, I would have to write scripts to perform mass 
updates, taking up processing time on both the client and the server 
systems.

>
>I know this means that a domain can be associated with hosts as objects and
>host as attributes and some people think that's inconsistent.  I don't think
>it is if you agree with the first point above.
>
>-Scott-
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>


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