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Lucian Daniel Kafka wrote:
| I have been trying to get a similar point through...
|
| I am a strong believer in contact IDs uniformity and consistency. Ie.
| all contact IDs managed through all registrars should be ROIDs.
| Unfortunately, for no reason I can see, most registrars have developed
| their own proprietary system of NICs which in term map back down to
| ROIDs in the background. The management of these is poor, especially if
| managing domains through different registrars - giving birth to
| scenarios like the one you have described.
|

Yeah I canīt see any reason why this would be good for the .au namespace.

Certainly it will make management much more challanging. If you look at
the area that I am most intrested in the Tech ID contact.

Under this new system I would have to go through and change each domain
name seperatly, under the old aunic DB type system all I had to do was
change my Tech Contact ID information and that would be reflected on all
of the domains I manage as a Tech Contact.

~From what I can see, there appears to be some concerted effort at
getting the owner to do all the management which is well and good for
some but for the ones who want it to work and donīt care how(and yes I
get the fact that they must know and aprove as per policy, this is not a
discusion directly related to that part of the policy) it means a whole
lot more time and effort to change things in the Tech ID if infoation
changes having to do each domain name seperatly!

Or cynically I could sugest that it is done this way to confuse the
general consumer and cause them to stay were they are!

| How can we get registrars to switch to pure ROIDs as contact IDs? Make
| it a rule for the newly accredited ones for a start.
|

It would be good if there was some others with ideas on this as well?
and why it is now this way compaired to how it was in the past much
easier to manage?

| At 07:35 PM 9/14/03 +1000, you wrote:
|
|>
|> I have a question about contact IDs.
|>
|> ~From what I have seen personally as now domains are just starting to
|> come up for renewal.
|>
|> With contact IDs.
|>
|> Transfering some domains away from MIT to other registrars I have
|> noticed there appear to be no way to put in a contact ID, you have to
|> fill in the details.
|>
|> The question this raises is that as ISP Hosting with Technical IDs into
|> the domains and several domains with the same admin ID, from what I have
|> been able to find they are all going to have different contact IDs.
|>
|> The question is doesnt that make the IDs fairly pointless. I mean there
|> is no tracking or constant details for either auDA or the owners to
|> track through the ID.
|>
|> Now this may have been done for a reason I am not seeing but I am not
|> sure.
|>
|> Any one got any ideas? Is this for the Good, Bad or Ugly?
|>
|> David
| Kind regards,
|
| Lucian Kafka
| www.conexim.com.au
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