[dns-operations] whois location standard

[Calvin Browne]

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 11:12 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Calvin Browne:
> 
> > You operate a zone - and want to publish the location of the whois
> > service for that zone. You simply publish a SRV record, and now people
> > know where to find whois information for that zone.
> 
> > Or aa.xx can subvert xx by publishing a different location for xx ?
> 
> aa.xx can subvert the xx WHOIS service, as perceived by the end user,
> by claiming to run its own WHOIS service and serve bad or misleading
> data for aa.xx.
> 

So, it can only publish bad information for itself....

I can't see how this is a problem?

--Calvin