[registrars] Accurate Transfer Data

[Ross Wm. Rader]

On 9/17/2003 6:39 AM Tim Ruiz noted that:

> I would like to propose an informal portability agreement among
> interested members of the RC, or any registrar for that matter.
> 
> Those who participate would agree to:

 > 1. Exchange and whitelist IPs from which transfers queries are
 > performed.
 > 2. Respond to queries from IPs on the whitelist with full whois data in
 > a consistent format.

We have been making similar arrangements with the sole addition of:

3. Registrars will not engage in whois referral queries for domains that 
they are not authoritative for.

The primary motivation is that this allows us to segregate 
administrative registrar driven query traffic from general public 
traffic and treat it accordingly (provide higher QoS etc to registrar 
driven traffic).

We are happy to continue to make arrangements with other registrars on 
this basis.

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                        -rwr