Re: last-verified-date

[Hong Liu <lhongsms@yahoo.com>]

Rick,

Per your suggestion, I am sending my comments to the
list. Here is the modified text I would suggest:

"2.9 Last Verified Date

The date the contact information was last verified as
valid by the entity who at the time of validation was
the sponsoring registrar of the contact object. This
parameter is OPTIONAL for a contact object. When used,
it is the registrar's sole responsibility to perform
the validation duty."

There are three key points I would like to make:

(1) The current sponsoring registrar is not
necessarily the registrar who last checked the
contact. To complete the proposal, it may be better to
include a <verID> to store the verifying registrar
identity. I will leave the WG to decide.
(2) The parameter should be optional, i.e., not all
contact objects are required to be verified.
(3) The registry should play no role, except for
storing the field when presented, in performing the
validity checking.

Hope you and other guys have a good discussion in
Atlanta on this and other topics. 

--Hong

--- Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com> wrote:
> 
> One of the items on the agenda for tuesday is a
> proposal for an element of
> contacts objects. I'd like to get some discussion
> going on this so we can
> stay in the 10 minutes allocated to the topic in our
> session.
> 
> 2.9 Last Verified Date
> 
> The date the contact had the opportunity to affirm
> that the information
> associated with the contact is correct. Registries
> MAY set policy on how
> checking is preformed and what if any procedure a
> registrar MUST apply to
> ensure correct Registrant data.
> 
> 
> The concept is to add some quality assurance
> mechanism to the registrant
> data and to make available for the publishing of the
> data in WHOIS or a
> CRISP protocol so that end-users can have an
> indicator as to the last date
> the information was verified.
> 
> I appreciate any thoughts the group has on this
> proposal.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -rick
> 
> 


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