[GNSO-TPR] Concurrent changes; transfer of DNS service

Steve Crocker steve at shinkuro.com
Tue May 18 13:38:02 UTC 2021


Thomas,

I'd be very interested in how you transfer a DNSSEC signed zone without
incurring any disruption of either resolution or validation.  Perhaps best
if we take this offline.

Thanks,

Steve


On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 3:07 AM Thomas Keller <thomas.keller at ionos.com>
wrote:

> Steve,
>
> Successful transfers are indeed the benchmark and from my point of view
> transfers with DNSSEC Zones are already done today successfully. This will
> not be changed by any of the policy under debate in this PDP. Transferring
> DNS is like transferring email or web content part of our everyday headache
> running a registrar/webhost ;) but not necessarily related to the Inter
> Registrar Transfer and the matter of FOAs, Auth Codes.
>
> Best
>
> tom
>
> Am 18.05.2021 um 03:01 schrieb Steve Crocker <steve at shinkuro.com>:
>
> Owen,
>
> Thanks.  The touchstone for me is whether a registrant can successfully
> transfer his registration from one registrar to another.  With respect to
> the registrant's DNS service, I believe this is most often provided free of
> charge by the registrar as part of the registrar's service.  As a
> consequence, when the registrant moves their registration to
> another registrar, they will also have to move their DNS service.  As
> things stand, I believe this often means there will be a disruption in
> resolution.  And for a signed zone, this also means a disruption in
> validation.
>
> If I understand your point, you're saying because this was not raised in
> the issues report, it's not in scope for this PDP.  Putting these points
> together, the goal for this PDP is to reach consensus on how a registrant
> can transfer their registration from one registrar to another with the
> understanding they will likely not be able to sustain uninterrupted service.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 8:49 PM Owen Smigelski via GNSO-TPR <
> gnso-tpr at icann.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Regarding inter-registrar transfers, that is covered by the Temp Spec
>> (specifically Appendix G, Section 1.2). I do not think it needs to be tied
>> to the inter-registrant process due to the post-Temp Spec transfer process
>> due to limited registrant data in the RDDS.
>>
>> While I think the other issues you raise are worthy of consideration,
>> they are outside of the scope for Phase 1a: gaining/losing FOA, auth-code
>> management, and Wave 1, Recommendation 27. Looking ahead, I do not see them
>> in the other phases as well. While I appreciate a desire for a holistic
>> review, this PDP is bound by its charter which is based upon concerns
>> raised in the issues report (which did not mention those items). We need to
>> be wary of scope creep to ensure that we can timely focus on and resolve
>> the items identified in our charter.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Owen
>>
>> On May 16, 2021, at 20:53, Steve Crocker <steve at shinkuro.com> wrote:
>>
>> On the call Friday, I commented that a change of registrar may also
>> require a change in DNS service at the same time.  I also asked if the
>> distinction between inter-registrant and inter-registrant mentioned in the
>> charter covered the case where both the registrant and registrar were
>> changing at the same time.
>>
>> Attached is a note digging into these cases.  In brief, I
>> recommend consideration of both the one-at-a-time changes AND full
>> understanding of how to make multiple changes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
>>
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