Re: [ssac-gnso-irdwg] Notes for IRD meeting

[James M Galvin <jgalvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a suggested editorial change for these notes.  The first bullet 
under the discussion of variants reads as follows:

There is no uniform definition of variant. Different organizations or 
different countries define it differently. However in general, variants 
can be categorized as activated variants and reserved variants. 
Activated variants are variants of a domain name that are put in the 
DNS zone file, thus resolvable through normal DNS lookup. Reserved 
variants are variants reserved for a specific domain name and cannot be 
registered, but are otherwise not in the DNS zone file.

I would prefer that we not introduce a new term, specifically 
"registered", in this description.  I think it's important we be 
precise about what we mean and if we do this we will need to define 
what we mean by "registered".  I would suggest this paragraph should 
read as follows:

There is no uniform definition of variant.  Different organizations and 
countries define it differently.  However, in general, variants can be 
categorized as activated variants or reserved variants.  Activated 
variants are variants of a domain name that are included in the DNS 
zone file and will resolve through normal DNS lookup.  All other 
variants are reserved variants, which specifically are not included in 
the DNS zone file.

I believe the question of whether or not the name is "registered" is an 
implementation detail.  It could mean that money has changed hands or 
it could be mean that the name is simply present in the registry 
database with a special status flag.  Or it could mean something else 
entirely.  I assert that if you expect a Whois response for a reserved 
name then it needs to appear in a registry database, which means it's 
registered, at least from a technical point of view.
We can set this issue aside by focusing on the detail we care about, 
which is whether or not the name appears in the DNS zone file.
Jim




-- On September 23, 2010 8:51:40 AM -0700 Steve Sheng 
<steve.sheng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote regarding [ssac-gnso-irdwg] Notes for IRD 
meeting --
> Dear IRD-WG,
>
>  Attached please find the notes for the IRD meetings August 30 and
> September 20, sorry for the delaying in sending it out. Let us know
> if you have any questions.
>
> Warmly,
> Steve