[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] RDS Statement of Purpose

[Gomes, Chuck]

Agreed Shane.  If we use the term 'domain name life-cycle', we will need to agree on a definition, which may or may not include start and end points earlier and later than I suggested.

Chuck

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From: Shane Kerr [mailto:shane at time-travellers.org] 
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 11:27 PM
To: Gomes, Chuck
Cc: gnso-rds-pdp-wg at icann.org
Subject: Re: [gnso-rds-pdp-wg] RDS Statement of Purpose

Chuck,

Minor nit...

At 2016-09-08 19:50:00 +0000
"Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes at verisign.com> wrote:

> I expressed a concern about this on the call (it may have been in the chat), along the following lines:  What exactly is meant by "the life-cycle of a domain name"?
> [Chuck Gomes] To me the definition of the life-cycle of a domain name is simply the time period from registration to deletion.  Obviously, that isn’t very helpful in terms of creating understanding of what is needed in the RDS, so I definitely think we need to add more to clarify that.  In my mind, supporting the life-cycle of a domain name includes a variety of possible things to include registrant needs, registry/registrar needs, user needs, legal needs, privacy needs, etc.

"from registration to deletion" is a bit too narrow. We may also want to consider the pre-registration phase (such as waiting lists, new gTLD holding periods for specific registrants, and so on). Also, after deletion some information may be needed for archival or historical purposes (I believe when I was at ARIN we created an internal tool called WHOWAS for this kind of thing, but that was almost 20 years ago so my memory may be even more flawed than usual).

But basically that's it. :)

Cheers,

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Shane