Re: Billing information and EPP/GRRP-REQ

[Klaus Malorny <Klaus.Malorny@knipp.de>]

"Hollenbeck, Scott" wrote:
> 
> Klaus,
> 
> I don't think I understand your suggestion.  It sounds like you'd like to
> see a client-provided serial number and a client-provided credit/debit
> amount related to registrar billing actions with their customers, but I
> don't understand how that info is of any use or concern to a registry.
> 
> If I'm misreading what you wrote, are you instead talking about registry
> billing of the registrar, for example letting the registrar know how much
> credit they have left after adding or renewing a domain name?  If so,
> wouldn't this be best done in registry-defined extensions to the protocol?
> 
> If I'm still completely off-base, can you provide some XML examples that
> illustrate your suggestion?
> 
> <Scott/>
> 

Hi Scott,

sorry for the confusing text, I should practice english more often ;-) . Your
second interpretation is right - I meant the registry billing of the
registrar. I just wanted to explain where I see a value for the registrars.
The serial number and the amount was meant to be created by the registry.

In addition, I didn't want to make a concrete proposal, instead, I wanted to
discuss whether such an extension would make sense. I myself am not quite
convinced about it! Nevertheless, as we (hopefully) make standards, we should
think about whether we should standardize such aspects like accounting also.
Such a standard does not need to be a part of EPP or GRRP neccessarily. I can
also imagine other ways: e.g. a daily report in XML format, where I get
notified about it via EPP ("Hey, we've got your account report for 2001-06-27
ready, download it via the URL ..."). As a registrar, I could make some
assumptions about the costs my requests produced - which may be false - and,
at the end of the day, I can correct my accounts with the help of these
reports.


regards,

Klaus Malorny


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