[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Proposed Agreement for Original Registration Date

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 03:15:00PM +0000, Greg Aaron wrote:
> The upshot is that the counter would probably start at "Unknown" for all existing domains.  
> * Once implemented, the feature has little usefulness until years in the future, when some domains get re-registered and those strings accumulate some history.  
> * But many domains get renewed year after year.  Those wouldn't  accumulate counter history, and would be set to Unknown either forever, or for long periods if they are ever allowed to expire and if they are then re-registered.  This is a significant portion of domains.  For example .COM has an renewal rate of around 72%.
> 

Yes.

> So the utility of the counter seems highly limited.  Does it even deliver the usefulness that its proponents want it to?
> 

Why highly limited?  The unknown case is _also_ data, after all.  But
of course, I don't know whether it delivers what the proponets want.
I think it delivers what the EWG report said was the value.

Best regards,

A

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Andrew Sullivan
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