IP: an interchange on Afilias -- Old Internet Thinking RIP

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Adam Peake <ajp () glocom ac jp>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 13:12:57 +0900
To: farber () cis upenn edu
Subject: Re: IP: an interchange on Afilias --  Old Internet  Thinking RIP

>  From: "Ole J. Jacobsen" <ole () cisco com>
> >  Reply-To: Ole Jacobsen <ole () cisco com>
> >  Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:41:57 -0700 (PDT)
> >  To: farber () cis upenn edu
> >  Subject: Re: IP: Old Internet Thinking RIP
> >
> >  Froomkin seems to have missed that the technical work for .org is going to
>  > be performed by Afilias, a well-established registry operator.
>  >


But information about Afilias' operational performance should be
available.  The 7 new tlds handed out in 2000 were intended as a
proof of concept, contracts included rigorous reporting requirements,
everything from technical performance compliance to marketing plans.
And that information should have been made public. Info at ICANNWatch
<http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=923&mode=&order=0>

Thanks,

Adam


>  > Ole
> >  Ole J. Jacobsen
> >  Editor and Publisher
> >  The Internet Protocol Journal
> >  Office of the CTO, Cisco Systems
> >  Tel: +1 408-527-8972
> >  GSM: +1 415-370-4628
> >  E-mail: ole () cisco com
> >  URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj
>
>
> From: Carl Malamud <carl () media org>
>
>
> Well ... we don't really know that Afilias is a well-established registry
> operator, do we?  Do they meet their SLAs?  Does their code conform with
> the EPP spec? How's internal performance?  Are security procedures really
> in place? 
>
> There are no public studies by reputable sources that have examined the
> technical performance of the Afilias registries and I certainly don't
> see any public facilities available that allow me to make that assessment.
>
> The paper trail stops.   I can't do technical due diligence and it is pretty
> clear that nobody doing the .org evaluations did any due diligence.  That
> may be appropriate for pitching a .com business plan or writing an OSI
> standard,
> but it isn't my understanding of how you run a public service on the
> Internet.
>
>
> Well ... we don't really know that Afilias is a well-established registry
> operator, do we?  Do they meet their SLAs?  Does their code conform with
> the EPP spec? How's internal performance?  Are security procedures really
> in place? 
>
> There are no public studies by reputable sources that have examined the
> technical performance of the Afilias registries and I certainly don't
> see any public facilities available that allow me to make that assessment.
>
> The paper trail stops.   I can't do technical due diligence and it is pretty
> clear that nobody doing the .org evaluations did any due diligence.  That
> may be appropriate for pitching a .com business plan or writing an
> OSI standard,
> but it isn't my understanding of how you run a public service on the Internet.
>
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>  > From: "Ole J. Jacobsen" <ole () cisco com>
>  > Reply-To: Ole Jacobsen <ole () cisco com>
>  > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:41:57 -0700 (PDT)
>  > To: farber () cis upenn edu
>  > Subject: Re: IP: Old Internet Thinking RIP
>  >
>  > Froomkin seems to have missed that the technical work for .org is going to
>  > be performed by Afilias, a well-established registry operator.
>  >
>  > Ole
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>  >
>  >
>  > Ole J. Jacobsen
>  > Editor and Publisher
>  > The Internet Protocol Journal
>  > Office of the CTO, Cisco Systems
>  > Tel: +1 408-527-8972
>  > GSM: +1 415-370-4628
>  > E-mail: ole () cisco com
>  > URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj
>  >
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