RE: [council] TLD Operational concerns -- A Perfect example...

["Terry L Davis, P.E." <tdavis2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephanie

 

Exactly!  

 

There will just be the potential for many more of this type of operational
process issues to occur and thus we will need to watch and see what areas of
DNS services and protocol technologies to push the IETF to change/improve
since the type of ?personal networking? that helps with day-to-day
operations today won?t be as usable/workable as the number of TLD?s and
IDN-TLDs grow.

 

Take care

Terry 

 

From: Stéphane Van Gelder [mailto:stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 9:42 AM
To: Terry L Davis, P.E.; 'GNSO Council'
Subject: Re: [council] TLD Operational concerns -- A Perfect example...

 

Hi Terry,

I don?t see any example of fundamental operational difficulties linked with
TLDs in the example your describe.

All I see is a mismanaged domain name transfer from one registrar to
another...

Stéphane


Le 27/04/09 18:28, « Terry L Davis, P.E. » <tdavis2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

All
 
Earlier this year some of you all wondered what my operational concerns were
with simultaneous starting of the new TLD and IDNs. This is just too perfect
an example not to share!
 
If you try, to bring up www.isoc.org <http://www.isoc.org> right now.  Some
of you all will get ?cannot find web server?!
 
I was on a call with ISOC this morning on some other issues.  At the end of
the call, I asked them why their website was down.  It wasn?t actually down
and  using the IP address instead of the URL, it worked fine (which won?t
even be doable by anyone other than a network engineer in IPv6).  But it
didn?t resolve on at least AT&T and Comcast from Seattle.
 
They just emailed back with the cause.  They switched registrars today and
had only a partial transfer occur to the TLDs.  
 
TLD operations up to now have as much been networked via ?personal contacts?
as by technology since there were only a dozen or so TLD operators globally.
Our technology will need to significantly improve to insure coordination and
security between what will be a growing number of TLD and IDN-TLD operators;
and IDN alone adds tremendously to the DNS technical complexity.
 
Anyway good food for discussions over a late night drink in Sydney.
 
Take care
Terry