Re: domreg BOF Meeting Minutes

["J. William Semich" <bsemich@worldnames.net>]

Many (the majority?) of the ccTLDs require a minimum two-year initial
registration period.

Bill Semich
.NU Domain

At 09:50 AM 12/20/00 -0500, Geva Patz wrote:

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>Finally, we should probably go through the draft to make
>sure that there aren't any small details in it that aren't
>requirements per se. An example is this sort of thing:
>
>>  The registration period for domain names MUST be measured in
>>  years, with a minimum period of one year and a maximum period
>>  defined by registry policy.
>
>Although this captures the current situation in most gTLDs (and
>many ccTLDs) accurately, there's absolutely no reason to make
>the minimum period of a year a high-level requirement. In fact,
>there's a good reason not to: a protocol designed literally
>to this requirement might include a validity counter with a
>resolution in years, making it impossible for registries to
>implement a policy with finer resolution.
>
>This is the only example that leapt out at me on my first few
>passes, but a closer reading may yield other, similar situations
>where current practice should not be reflected as a requirement.
>
>Geva Patz
>geva@bbn.com
>
>
Bill Semich
President and Founder
WorldNames, Inc.
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