[77276] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The entire mechanism is Wrong!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Dever)
Mon Jan 17 09:57:26 2005
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:56:41 -0500
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>, Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>,
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Reply-To: dever@snoopy.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0501170711030.11301@sharpie.argfrp.us.uu.net>
From: Doug Dever <dever@snoopy.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Previously, Christopher L. Morrow (christopher.morrow@mci.com) wrote:
>
>
> 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)
Except those clients get affected when something like this happens..
Even if Company A decided to go with Registrar X because they have 24/7
support, if that domain gets moved to Registrar Y and it was not
intended to (malicious intent, technical error, whatever...), it
suddenly doesn't matter if they chose X does it?
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Douglas A. Dever dever@snoopy.net
http://www.getaclue.net/
