The
recent version of DAG (http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/rfp-clean-30may11-en.pdf) suggests
the following on the availability.
In
the section SPECIFICATION 10, REGISTRY PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATIONS
…
4.1.
RDDS availability. Refers to the ability of all the RDDS services for the TLD,
to respond to
queries
from an Internet user with appropriate data from the relevant Registry System.
If 51% or
more
of the RDDS testing probes see any of the RDDS services as unavailable during a
given
time,
the RDDS will be considered unavailable
regards,
Sarmad
P.S. Find “51%” in the document
and you will get to this section. It seems not to have a page number