Re: the curse of the S(imple) protocols, was: Re: e2e

[John C Klensin <john-ietf at jck.com>]

--On Friday, 17 August, 2007 15:03 -0400 "Steven M. Bellovin"
<smb at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:

>> The very simple idea of having a .bank TLD for financial
>> institutions could also help a lot here.
>> 
> Same failure modes.

Worse, unless the registry and its registrars were chartered
such that registering anything but the primary name of a
legitimate bank (with "legitimate" defined according to some
internationally- recognized authority model, which is a whole
other problem) would subject them to significant civil and
criminal penalties.

      john




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