CircleID

We need a lot more thinking in this style. We naturally wish to defend methods that were very agreeable in the good old days. But not all of those methods continue to serve in a much larger and more diverse community. In many cases we can meet the same needs with different mechanisms, particularly when a single system bundles disparate functions, as DNS/Whois do.

The augmented IP/Whois appears to provide important contacts between network admins without many of the social conflicts inherent in DNS/Whois.

Mike O'Donnell