Re: [eppext] I-D Action: draft-lozano-ietf-eppext-registrar-expiration-date-00.txt

[Gustavo Lozano <[e-mail]>]

Scott,

I don't think it's a good idea to define the meaning of the
registrar registration expiration date in this specification. The Registrar
Accreditation Agreement 2013
(https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-2013-09-17-en#wh
ois)
defines that the Whois output of the Registrar must show the "Registrar
Registration
Expiration Date", and the draft Thick Whois Policy
(https://whois.icann.org/sites/default/files/files/thick-rdds-consensus-pol
icy-draft-25nov15-en.pdf)
requires this field to be passed to the registry, who in turn will show it.

 
I have seen domains (e.g. whois -h whois.pir.org pir.org / whois
-h whois.godaddy.com pir.org) in the wild in which the registry expiration
date
is different from the registrar expiration date. It appears that sometimes
is
related to an auto-renew that has not been paid by the Registrant, other
cases
appear to be related to the business model of the registrar, etc.
 

>From the I-D perspective, the registrar registration
expiration date is just another data point with no meaning to the
lifecycle of
the domain name. 
 
 
 


Regards,
Gustavo

On 1/21/16, 11:52, "Hollenbeck, Scott" <[e-mail]> wrote:

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>> Subject: I-D Action: draft-lozano-ietf-eppext-registrar-expiration-
>> date-00.txt
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>> 
>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
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>> 
>> 
>>         Title           : Registrar Registration Expiration Date
>> Extension Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
>>         Author          : Gustavo Lozano
>> 	Filename        : draft-lozano-ietf-eppext-registrar-expiration-
>> date-00.txt
>> 	Pages           : 15
>> 	Date            : 2016-01-21
>> 
>> Abstract:
>>    This document describes an Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
>>    extension mapping for the provisioning and management of the
>>    registrar registration expiration date for domain names stored in a
>>    shared central repository.  Specified in XML, this mapping extends
>>    the EPP domain name mapping.
>
>Gustavo, I wish this document would explain what this value actually
>means given that registrars are not the authoritative source of
>information for domain expiration dates. Could you please add some text
>to the Introduction that explains the purpose of the value and what it
>means of the context of the expiration date maintained by registries? Can
>they ever be different? What does it mean if they are different? Why are
>both needed if they are supposed to be the same?
>
>I'd also like to suggest that you add text to the different command
>descriptions to make it clear what the values represent when you're
>extending a renew, transfer, etc.
>
>Scott