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Re: [registrars] The Iron Fist of Iron Mountain;-(
- To: "Robert F. Connelly" <BobC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [registrars] The Iron Fist of Iron Mountain;-(
- From: Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:24:34 -0700
- Cc: Registrars Constituency and observers <registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Robert F. Connelly wrote:
If this the kind of stupidity we can expect from Iron Mountain in
perpetuity, they will be able to make registrars lives a living hell.
Can someone please tell me how else I can handle the Escrow requirements?
Back when Zupke asked me to assist on escrow I opined that "we should be
generous in what we accept", in order to make adoption of escrow easy.
Obviously I lost that one to the "we will require X" school of thought.
I also opined that to be useful to non-defunct registrars, the escrow
should address business continuity problems. Suppose all those rare
earth elemental names that Tim's been sequestering away somewhere in
Arizona go critical, or yet another tropical depression makes landfall
in Miami, and some registrar is looking at days-to-weeks before the
glowing goo or non-glowing muck is squeegeed out of his or her rackspace
and the phones go live again. From a note in the exchange of notes
between myself and Dave Piscitello and Steve Crocker re: SSAC025 shortly
after New Delhi:
/If this were the registrar escrow problem I'd want registrars to
want in, because it meets their fire/flood/power/partition/theft
scenarios, and escrow helps them operationally, and because it meets
their business/legal/regulatory pro forma, and keeps them from
having to either build out a second set of boxen, or run naked on a
single failure thread. Something on the order of "there is a spare
set of boxes in the closet-in-the-cloud, and if you flush data to
them daily, the day you can't [insert unavoided event here] is the
day you can move into the closet-in-the-cloud and start your
facilities recovery clock"
/
So the question for one or more registrars is the pro forma exercise
Zupke settled on, which gets ICANN out of your hair while you live, and
after you're dead and gone the way of RegisterFly, what do you care if
the data is junk, it is someone else's business opportunity, or do you
want something else, possibly because you'd like a crack at explaining
to registrants, resellers, and shareholders, that your escrow and
business continuity is integrated, and you don't just escrow your EPP
payload bits, you escrow all of your bits.
Obviously, this isn't something I'd expect the bigger registrars to jump
on, but further on down the volume curve it may look reasonable.
Cheers,
Eric
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