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Re: [registrars] gTLD Registry Maintenance Notices
- To: ross@xxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [registrars] gTLD Registry Maintenance Notices
- From: Larry Erlich <erlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:40:35 -0400
- Cc: Tim Ruiz <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>, michael@xxxxxxxxxx, registrars@xxxxxxxx, dam@xxxxxxxxx, "'Marie. Zitkova'" <Marie.Zitkova@xxxxxxxxx>, "'Miriam Sapiro'" <msapiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Organization: DomainRegistry.com, Inc.
- References: <01d101c42ae0$b32edbd0$fa05a8c0@TIMRUIZ> <408BEFF8.8010801@tucows.com>
- Sender: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
>
> On 4/25/2004 12:16 PM Tim Ruiz noted that:
>
> > Then for all of the email notices they provide a way for us to simply submit
> > email addresses for them that could be distribution accounts. That would
> > include:
> >
> > -- Transfer notifications
> > -- Fund Balance and Billing notifications, including urgent* notices
> > regarding low balances or getting shutdown.
> > -- Maintenance/outage notifications, including urgent* notices for
> > unexpected problems or emergency maintenance.
> > -- General notifications such as for Web casts.
> > -- Other urgent* technical notifications such as warning notices about
> > misuse of connections.
>
> 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.
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.
Larry Erlich
http://www.DomainRegistry.com
> In any
> event, it would be nice to poll the registry directly for notices on an
> automated basis rather than poll a local mailbox and hope that we got
> the complete payload...
>
> RSS/RDF offer a great deal of flexibility concerning implementations and
> I've spent a *lot* of time working with these formats over the past year
> and have a number of ideas how registrars and registrars could easily
> adopt them. I'd be happy to elaborate a bit if there's any interest.
> --
>
> -rwr
>
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