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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Regarding registrar LOCK for panix.com
Oki all, I wasn't going to discuss this because it is potentially confusing, but as we're ratholing on registrar lock ... --- Some 60 plus days after a party acquired a domain, s/he initiated an "UNLOCK" at the user interface of the operator that had arrainged to acquire this particular domain. The transaction completed. The "loosing" registrar showed "unlocked", the "gaining" registrar saw the "unlocked" and proceeded with a transfer, which failed. The rrp.unlock() call actually never was made from the registrar to the registry, due to a transient network event between the operator network, and the "loosing" registrar network. The point is that locks aren't what they seem. This is a distributed system with many points of failure, not completely coherent, and it does matter from where one looks. Shorter form: error is possible. --- The registrant asked me to help. I called the operator. The CSR who took the call observed the inconsistency and re-issued the rrp.unlock(). Domain unlocked by jrandom-3rd-party in under two minutes. Granted, it was in an unusual state and the caller (me) knew more than the nice CSR. --- Posit a backhoe of unusual size operating near MIT, or that MIT does business out of Sri Lanka and the State of Nagaland has just dragged anchor across the SEA-ME-WE-III (again), or any of a dozen other real life events. We'd be chatting about the state in the central registry, not the failure to trigger a state change at the periphery of the system. --- It is possible to run a domain name based network service off of addresses provisioned by dhcp. It is possible to acquire a contiguous block, and to hold them for quite a long time. But that doesn't mean that it is sensible to build a network infrastructure for dynmaically provisioned resources. The transformation of the dns service from 1990 to the present has created dynmaic provisioned name resources -- the property absent in 1990, the "competitive" registrar, is dynamic, and hence so is everything else. I picked 1990 because Panix is 15 year old. I think the fundamental issue is that things that ought to be wicked stable, are in fact not. Everyone is free to draw their own conclusions, and act as they see fit, its all just risk management anyway, but if the design respected this user community, we wouldn't be reading that the correct competitive registrar can manage the risk. --- This is my last note on the subject. Eric
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