[gnso-ff-pdp-may08] DNS data - howto - and costs involved

[Marc Perkel <marc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Some people are concerned about the burden/complexity of implementing 
based Whois. Perhaps Joe can help offer details as he knows more about 
this that I do. But I'll start the discussion.
There is an open source utility called rbldnsd which is extremely good 
and very easy to implement. It is a DNS server like Bind but it is 
optimized towards providing information and is far faster and memory 
efficient than Bind. The rbldnsd program is used extensively in the spam 
filtering world for IP based black lists as well as name based lists 
(FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name as in example.com).
The software uses extremely simple text file for configuration. These 
text file can be generated in many cases with simple shell scripts. 
These raw zone files can also be made available for downloading so as to 
reduce DNS lookup traffic. And it may end up structured in a way where 
each registrar provides the DNS just like Whois for the data under their 
control.
Perhaps some of you might have more specific ideas about how to 
implement it but I want to make the point that I think the 
implementayion is going to be both easy and inexpensive and that the 
cost will be trivial and not cut into the registrars slim margins. In 
fact it might solve problem and actually reduce registrars costs due to 
efficiencies it creates.