[registrars] gTLD Registry Maintenance Notices

[Jean-Michel Becar]

I agree with a more standard form amongst all the registries for their 
maintenance announcement.
I don't really see the point to introduce a new system like RSS, we 
already have EPP so why not to have the following:

1- A standard mail form sent to all the registrars tech contact
2- A new EPP command we can pull so we can automated some internal 
procedures

and like Donny said: Problem solved :-)

Regards,
Jean-Michel

Donny Simonton wrote:

>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.
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>Bloggers think that RSS will solve all problems, just like the people who
>invented XML thought it would solve all problems.
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>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.
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>Problem solved!  Next problem.
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>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.
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>Donny
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>>-----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)
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>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>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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