[regext] Registry-Registrar Reporting

[Roger D Carney <[e-mail]>]

Good Afternoon,

I took an action item out of the Interim REGEXT Meeting held 03NOV2019 in regards to the Registry-Registrar Reporting discussion.

We discussed, for almost two hours, several proposals around standardizing Registry-Registrar Reports. Roughly there were three proposals:

*       Column/Report Registry - Create two (2) first come first serve registries at IANA to contain the industry agreed standardized 1) column names and definitions and 2) Report Name and column mappings. This was a new proposal presented at the Interim Meeting.

*       Best Practice - Define each standard report as an RFC. Over the past year or so there have been several drafts created to document proposed reporting standards between Registries and Registrars.  (draft-mcpherson-sattler-report-structure<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mcpherson-sattler-report-structure/>, draft-mcpherson-sattler-reporting-repository<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mcpherson-sattler-reporting-repository/>, draft-mcpherson-sattler-transaction-report<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mcpherson-sattler-transaction-report/>, draft-sattler-premium-domain-fee-report<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sattler-premium-domain-fee-report/>, draft-sattler-domain-inventory-report<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sattler-domain-inventory-report/>, draft-sattler-domain-drop-list-report<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sattler-domain-drop-list-report/>, draft-sattler-unavailable-domain-report<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sattler-unavailable-domain-report/>,  draft-sattler-contact-inventory-report<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sattler-contact-inventory-report/>).

*       Dataset File Format - A proposed format that can be used to define and pass bulk data between Registry-Registrar. There was some discussion on possible modifications that would possibly allow report definition and delivery (draft-gould-regext-dataset<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gould-regext-dataset/>).

To provide focus and eliminate as much duplicate effort as possible, I would propose that the WG proceed with the Column/Report Registry concept; remove (from the REGEXT backlog) the internet drafts created under the Best Practice concept; and continue with the Dataset File Format for bulk operations but not be used/modified for these standard reports.

For discussion details please see the meeting notes (coming soon).


Thanks
Roger