[77259] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The entire mechanism is Wrong!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Mon Jan 17 02:13:31 2005
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:12:58 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <159501c4fc5e$0716da00$6401a8c0@alexh>
To: Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>
Cc: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>,
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
> >
> > If people like Melbourne IT are going to claim they can't act on
> > weekends, it might also be sensible not to allow transfers to be
> > processed between Thursday and Sunday, though honestly I think if you
> > are going to be a registrar, you are going to have to deal with
> > problems over weekends.
> It is their dirty problem - if they can not act on weekend, they can not
> maintain a registry, that's all.
>
provided their contract requires some form of 24/7 support, and there is
an SLA to manage that requirement. If there isn't then there is no need
for 24/7 support (no contractual reason), it just becomes a business
differentiator for clients when chosing registrar X or registrar Y
(or so it seems to me)
