[registrars] gTLD Registry Maintenance Notices

[Donny Simonton]

I don't like the email system we currently have, and I think RSS feeds would
be just as bad if not worse than what we have right now.  The reason is very
simple, if a registry goes down they wouldn't have to notify us, they would
just post something via RSS feed.  So what would happen, people would be
checking it every 30 seconds to make sure there are no problems.

Bloggers think that RSS will solve all problems, just like the people who
invented XML thought it would solve all problems.

If we had a combination of email and RSS that would probably help.  Hell,
why not just allow us to poll it via EPP.  Why involve RSS when we already
have a system in place.

Problem solved!  Next problem.

If that doesn't work, at least an option via the registries to have a
downtime mailing list.  So at least we could send it to the people who
actually need the information.  Our CFO really doesn't care if .name will be
down for 4 hours on Saturday.  But CS and Network Operations do.

Donny

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-
> registrars at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of tbarrett
> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 3:10 PM
> To: ross at tucows.com; 'Larry Erlich'
> Cc: 'Tim Ruiz'; michael at palage.com; registrars at dnso.org; dam at icann.org;
> 'Marie. Zitkova'; 'Miriam Sapiro'
> Subject: RE: [registrars] gTLD Registry Maintenance Notices
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> I'd like to echo Ross' comments.
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> The ideal scenario is a registry-maintained website that can be polled or
> syndicated to display registry notices to our customers.  This is the most
> efficient mechanism for distributing urgent registry notices to end-users.
> (and eliminates a manual re-publishing step for registrars)
> 
> Tom Barrett
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org
> [mailto:owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Ross Wm. Rader
> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 1:53 PM
> To: Larry Erlich
> Cc: Tim Ruiz; michael at palage.com; registrars at dnso.org; dam at icann.org;
> 'Marie. Zitkova'; 'Miriam Sapiro'
> Subject: Re: [registrars] gTLD Registry Maintenance Notices
> 
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> On 4/25/2004 3:40 PM Larry Erlich noted that:
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> >>I'd personally like to see the Registries move away from email for
> >>important administrative notices like the ones that you describe. Some
> >>sort of standardized XML syndication format like RSS or RDF would seem
> >>to make the most sense. It might even make sense to offer
> >>notifications like this in parallel with email on a trial basis to
> >>start.
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> > We are happy with the current email based system.
> >
> > Any future system should keep the legacy
> > email system running in parallel permanently with individual
> > registrars having the option of being removed from the email
> > notifications.
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> Email is a great low-volume, low-reliability, no-scale notification
> system. I wouldn't advocate abandoning it entirely, but the registries
> should be working to provide registrars with more stable, more efficient
> and more reliable services in order to ensure that they can serve our
> businesses as they grow. As I mentioned, maintaining something in
> parallel or running a trial is probably the best approach - at least to
> start.
> 
> It really is time that the registries provide registrars with a complete
> quality of service guarantee rather than relying on best efforts
> messaging technologies like email for notices and messages that are so
> important to each of our businesses.
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