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

[Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Terry,

It¹s ³Stephane², the French spelling of Stefan if you prefer ;-)

As for the transfer problem you raise, I still don¹t understand why you are
linking this to broader issues such as those described in your email. A
registrar to registrar transfer is more dependent on the quality of the
registrars handling it than on the number of TLDs around. There is no
personal networking involved and a achieving a successful domain name
transfer from one registrar to another in a specific TLD has absolutely
nothing to do with the number of other TLDs out there.

Thanks,

Stéphane.


Le 27/04/09 20:11, « Terry L Davis, P.E. » <tdavis2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> 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 ³personal networking² that helps with day-to-day operations
> today won¹t be as usable/workable as the number of TLD¹s 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 don¹t 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 ³cannot find web server²!
>  
> 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 wasn¹t actually down
> and  using the IP address instead of the URL, it worked fine (which won¹t even
> be doable by anyone other than a network engineer in IPv6).  But it didn¹t
> 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 ³personal contacts²
> 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
>