I chose to use the terms creation to expiration, reserving registration to be used to describe the process of associating an identity with the domain name. A question I would ask is if reserving a domain name could be one type of creation? If so, another type could be when it is assigned to a registrant. There may be other types. Similarly, archiving a domain name (or its contact information) could be a sub-step of expiration, that could in fact be optional. More generally, what I’m asking is if you really believe we need to have an additional endpoint at each end or if the steps you are calling out are part of the existing end points? Thanks, Jim On 8 Sep 2016, at 23:26, Shane Kerr wrote:
Chuck,
Minor nit...
At 2016-09-08 19:50:00 +0000 "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@verisign.com> wrote:
I expressed a concern about this on the call (it may have been in the chat), along the following lines: What exactly is meant by "the life-cycle of a domain name"? [Chuck Gomes] To me the definition of the life-cycle of a domain name is simply the time period from registration to deletion. Obviously, that isn’t very helpful in terms of creating understanding of what is needed in the RDS, so I definitely think we need to add more to clarify that. In my mind, supporting the life-cycle of a domain name includes a variety of possible things to include registrant needs, registry/registrar needs, user needs, legal needs, privacy needs, etc.
"from registration to deletion" is a bit too narrow. We may also want to consider the pre-registration phase (such as waiting lists, new gTLD holding periods for specific registrants, and so on). Also, after deletion some information may be needed for archival or historical purposes (I believe when I was at ARIN we created an internal tool called WHOWAS for this kind of thing, but that was almost 20 years ago so my memory may be even more flawed than usual).
But basically that's it. :)
Cheers,
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