Re: domreg BOF Meeting Minutes

["Christopher Ambler" <cambler-ietf@iodesign.com>]

Greetings, all. This point is well taken, in that our registry system does not
measure the registration length in years, but instead uses an "expiration
date." While that is currently set to n years past the current date, there's
no reason it has to be.

I can foresee a future in which a .movie domain, for example, might
sell 6-month registrations. Or an annual-event registry might sell
pro-rated registrations for "the rest of the year," all set to expire
on 31 December.

--
Christopher Ambler
CTO, Image Online Design, Inc.
The .Web Internet Domain Registry
chris@the.web

> >  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.