RE: Handling of External Host Objects

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

> >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.

Which puts us right back where we started with this discussion... ;-)

-Scott-