At 02:17 PM 11/30/98 +0100, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote: I admit that I have not taken part in the DB WG, since I trust the work done there, and all changes that have been done over the past years have been fine and in their place. This change too, from a technical aspect - is good. I would not have spotted the "human engineering" aspects either even if I was on the list and contributing. Sometimes, one can admit their mistakes and say we need to reevaluate the results. I have received another 3 calls today (we only register 500 domains per month on average in .il) from users wanting to buy .il domains from me. No one else is seeing this problem??? -Hank

Dear Hank,

May be (or may be not) the "human engineering aspects" were discussed enough but, please, if things like this affect your work so much, get into the db-wg mailing list and give your input.

The TLD wg was also involved in this and they were actually very much looking forward to have this mechanism in place.

If you still feel that "This needs to be rectified" you can discuss this with the community, although it would have been better to discuss all this when the design was proposed instead of going around the loop again (which, of course, we'll do if users want to).

I'll wait and listen.

Regards, Joao

Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il> writes: * At 01:01 PM 11/30/98 +0100, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote: * * Yes, that may be all correct - from a techno standpoint. What I am * stressing is the human engineering aspect. Up till now, thousands of hits * are sent to the whois.ripe.net every month to determine whether a domain * exists or not. Users have been doing this for years. Suddenly, the output * is different and they do not realize it. I highly doubt that the human * engineering aspect was discussed or analyzed to any extent in the DB WG. -H * ank *