See http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-crispin-srs-00.txt for
the full document.



Network Working Group                                        K. Crispin
INTERNET-DRAFT	                                             D. Crocker
<draft-crispin-srs-00.txt>	                             R. Gaetano
Expires in six months	                                  S. Langenbach
	                                                 November, 1998

               Shared Registry System Protocol (SRSP)

ABSTRACT

    This specification describes a protocol for a Shared Registry
    System (SRS) that allows multiple registrars to register domain
    names within a single Top Level Domain (TLD).  The protocol is
    high-level, text-based, and can be used over many underlying
    transport mechanisms, including email.  The semantic content of
    the protocol is expressed as a set of keyword-value pairs; the
    semantics and structure of this content is, in this document,
    loosely described as the "payload". 

    The protocol described herein is essentially identical to the SRS
    version 1.5 protocol, specified by the CORE SRS RFP and developed
    by Curt Meyer of Emergent Corporation. 
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1.  ARCHITECTURE FOR A SRS

    This section describes a reference architecture for a shared
    domain name registry system.  Explicit goals of this system
    include having mutually distrustful registrars, simple transfer
    by a domain holder between registrars, extensive use of public
    key signatures for authentication and nonrepudiation, robustness
    in the face of failure of any component, and ease of
    implementation.  
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