Warning: of only tangential operational significance http://www.patho.gen.nz/nz-registrars/ I am trying to coordinate some open discussion about an automated interface between registrar and registry, such as might be used by an ISP or web hosting company to manage new domain registration and domain deletion, and to manage modifications of the register. There are many different ways of doing this with gTLD and ccTLD registries at the moment, and no agreed standard approach. This project is an attempt to allow interested parties to build a specification for an interface that will meet their specific needs. This project is not endorsed by ISOCNZ or Domainz, although it is to be hoped that if we can reach good agreement within the industry about what our requirements are, ISOCNZ might listen. The NZ-REGISTRARS mailing list is a technical forum; the idea is to avoid politics and grandstanding as far as possible. The intent is to produce a comprehensive design, and stable, flexible running code, nothing more. A rapid summary of the potential features of the interface under discussion: + a strict XML representation for all transactions between registry and registrar + a choice of transport for exchanging transaction elements (e.g. e-mail, CORBA, DCOM, HTTP, whois) + batch and real-time transaction support + full version history/modification log for all records + strong authentication + compatability shims to allow transactions and query results to be accepted and presented in foreign formats, e.g. RIPE-181, NSI whois, NSI e-mail templates, Domainz whois, Domainz web-based query, Domainz e-mail channel template All are welcome. Details of the little bit of work done so far can be found at http://www.patho.gen.nz/nz-registrars/ Joe --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog