[LINK] auDA Public Board Meeting - Monday Aug 13 - Sydney

[Kim Davies]

Quoting Glen Turner on Monday August 20, 2007:
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| Lack of *effective* notice.  That is, only e-mails that look like spam.
| No paper invoice, no phone call. Just cut off.

I think the idea of opting in for such notices would be a good value
added service for some registrars to offer. For clients who rely on
their domain, I am sure they would pay some extra for the peace of mind
to know that they would be contacted in such a manner. However in the
domain business, where the churn can be literally millions of adds and
deletes a day, I don't see how this is scalable for all domains.

| The most notorious being the expiration of mq.edu.au -- two day outage.

The .edu.au domain is managed by the education sector, rather than
auDA, as far as I am aware. auDA's website says it is managed by AICTEC
(http://www.aictec.edu.au/). I imagine they are responsible for the
policies with respect to notices, etc.

| I'll note that AARNet gets spanked for a five minute outage. The
| DNS operations needs to catch up, even if this leads to a dual-tier
| pricing scheme in some domains.

The DNS needs to be unquestionably "always on", and at the core registry
level it should provide predictable service in a fully automated
manner. The registry-registrar model is predicated on the idea that
multiple registrars will compete on price and service. I believe
AICTEC has decided only to have a single registrar for .edu.au (called
education.au) so there is no competition in service. The registry
operator is AusRegistry (the same registry provider used for .com.au and
some others), but that is through the choice of the managers of .edu.au
and they could use another registry operation if they desired.

kim