On 4/9/13 4:23 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
It's about time certification was lost for failure to handle AAAA records. The same should also apply for DS records.
You can suggest this to the compliance team. It seems to me (registrar hat == "on") that in 2.5 years time, when Staff next conducts a registrar audit, that this is a reasonable expectation of an accreditation holding contracted party. It simply needs to be added to the base RAA agreement. Joe _may_ be in a position to encourage the compliance team to develop a metric and a test mechanism, but at present, the compliance team appears to be capable of WHOIS:43 harvesting (via Kent's boxen) and occasional WHOIS:80 scraping, and little else beyond records reconciliation for a limited sample. NB, investing equal oversight labor in all current (and former) RAA holders is (a) a significant duplication of effort for little possible benefit where shell registrars are concerned, and (b) treats registrars (and their registrants' interests in fair dealing) with a few hundreds of domains and registrars (and their registrants' interests) with 10% or more of the total gTLD registry market indifferently by policy and enforcement tool design. The latter means most registrants (those with performance contracts from registrars with 10% market share) receive several orders of magnitude less contractual oversight protections than registrants using registrars with a few hundred "names under management". IMHO, that's a problem that could be fixed. Eric