--On Saturday, December 26, 2015 9:52 PM -0500 Phillip
Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>...
> One of the issues people don't seem to consider in these
> schemes is that merely reducing the number of trusted
> intermediaries from ~40 to one doesn't actually remove
> reliance on trusted third parties, it merely removes all
> choice in the matter.
And even that equation tends to be complicated by the
observation that the trust relationship, as far as certification
of identity is concerned, is with the registrars (and, in some
cases, their agents and resellers) rather than with the
registries. At that point, the number of trusted intermediaries
gets back toward order 40 or 100, not one, unless the question
is "do you control this domain" rather than "are you who you say
you are".
john