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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>Terry,<BR>
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It’s “Stephane”, the French spelling of Stefan if you prefer ;-)<BR>
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As for the transfer problem you raise, I still don’t understand why you are linking this to broader issues such as those described in your email. A registrar to registrar transfer is more dependent on the quality of the registrars handling it than on the number of TLDs around. There is no personal networking involved and a achieving a successful domain name transfer from one registrar to another in a specific TLD has absolutely nothing to do with the number of other TLDs out there.<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
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Stéphane.<BR>
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Le 27/04/09 20:11, « Terry L Davis, P.E. » <<a href="tdavis2@speakeasy.net">tdavis2@speakeasy.net</a>> a écrit :<BR>
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Exactly! <BR>
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There will just be the potential for many more of this type of operational process issues to occur and thus we will need to watch and see what areas of DNS services and protocol technologies to push the IETF to change/improve since the type of “personal networking” that helps with day-to-day operations today won’t be as usable/workable as the number of TLD’s and IDN-TLDs grow.<BR>
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Take care<BR>
Terry <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><B>From:</B> Stéphane Van Gelder [<a href="mailto:stephane.vangelder@indom.com">mailto:stephane.vangelder@indom.com</a>] <BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 27, 2009 9:42 AM<BR>
<B>To:</B> Terry L Davis, P.E.; 'GNSO Council'<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> Re: [council] TLD Operational concerns -- A Perfect example...<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>Hi Terry,<BR>
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I don’t see any example of fundamental operational difficulties linked with TLDs in the example your describe.<BR>
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All I see is a mismanaged domain name transfer from one registrar to another...<BR>
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Stéphane<BR>
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Le 27/04/09 18:28, « Terry L Davis, P.E. » <<a href="tdavis2@speakeasy.net">tdavis2@speakeasy.net</a>> a écrit :<BR>
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Earlier this year some of you all wondered what my operational concerns were with simultaneous starting of the new TLD and IDNs. This is just too perfect an example not to share!<BR>
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If you try, to bring up www.isoc.org <<a href="http://www.isoc.org">http://www.isoc.org</a>> right now. Some of you all will get “cannot find web server”!<BR>
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I was on a call with ISOC this morning on some other issues. At the end of the call, I asked them why their website was down. It wasn’t actually down and using the IP address instead of the URL, it worked fine (which won’t even be doable by anyone other than a network engineer in IPv6). But it didn’t resolve on at least AT&T and Comcast from Seattle.<BR>
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They just emailed back with the cause. They switched registrars today and had only a partial transfer occur to the TLDs. <BR>
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TLD operations up to now have as much been networked via “personal contacts” as by technology since there were only a dozen or so TLD operators globally. Our technology will need to significantly improve to insure coordination and security between what will be a growing number of TLD and IDN-TLD operators; and IDN alone adds tremendously to the DNS technical complexity.<BR>
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Anyway good food for discussions over a late night drink in Sydney.<BR>
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Take care<BR>
Terry<BR>
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