The "updated" client code is a full release (v2.34), but is unsupported
currently. The only part you need to use is reg_system.info (cgi and
templates, and associated libraries) - manage and other components have
not changed significantly.
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, JS Schiller wrote:
> Can you clarify what you mean by UPDATED CLIENT CODE?
>
> A quick and dirty CGI with hooks for CC processing that should be fairly
> simple to implement? Is *thaaaat* what you mean?
>
>
> :>
>
>
> -s
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rick Baraniuk
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 8:27 AM
> > To: Swerve; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: .biz and .info updates
> >
> >
> > Josh et al
> > OpenSRS will start accepting submissions this afternoon. The
> > time was originally supposed to be 12:00 noon, but has been
> > pushed back til about 3:00pm EST. There is some great news
> > associated with this delay - we will also be offering an
> > UPDATED CLIENT CODE! (for .info pre-reg only) As the client
> > code was not to be ready until end of week, beginning of
> > next, I think this is great news. .biz pre-reg can only be
> > performed via RWI...until we get any specs from NeuLevel :)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Swerve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 10:44 AM
> > To: Rick Baraniuk; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: .biz and .info updates
> >
> >
> > Likely this has been posted.
> >
> > when will opensrs start accepting submissions?
> >
> > tx,
> >
> > josh
> >
> > > From: "Rick Baraniuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:42:51 -0400
> > > To: "Robert L Mathews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Subject: RE: .biz and .info updates
> > >
> > > Robert
> > > I think that I addressed that question in some part last
> > night...but I
> > > am going to give it a try again to see if I can further clarify.
> > >
> > > The first reseller to submit a pre-registration request will be
> > > awarded
> > the
> > > 'place' in the Tucows queue. For example, if 2 resellers
> > attempt to
> > > pre-register tigertech.info then the first to submit would
> > receive a
> > > spot
> > in
> > > the Tucows queue. Any duplicate pre-registration request
> > submission
> > > will result in an 'error' message to the submitting reseller (most
> > > likely a 'domain taken' message or something very similar -
> > therefore
> > > multiple submissions will not be permitted).
> > >
> > > As for the selection process - it WILL be randomized from within the
> > Tucows
> > > queue - so further to your point the best chance to be awarded the
> > > domain will most likely come in round 1 of the queue as nothing has
> > > been
> > previously
> > > registered.
> > >
> > > Correct - if a reseller submits during the first seven day
> > round then
> > > they will be awarded the domain...and correct again that the queues
> > > grow
> > smaller
> > > and smaller until the pre-registration process becomes first-come,
> > > first-served, so there is an advantage to submitting as
> > soon as Tucows
> > > begins accepting submissions.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Rick
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert L Mathews
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 1:36 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: .biz and .info updates
> > >
> > >
> > > At 6/4/01 6:36 PM, Kirk Fletcher wrote:
> > >
> > >>> 4. .info registry will be selecting submissions RANDOMLY from
> > >>> within the Tucows queue; all resellers, regardless of submission
> > >>> date, have an EQUAL chance of being awarded the .info domain)
> > >>
> > >> I'd interpreted the above to mean that it was no longer a
> > first-in,
> > >> first-served basis. I guess that was the wrong interpretation?
> > >
> > > And does this mean that there is no longer a limit of one applicant
> > > per name? (And if so, what stops people from applying
> > multiple times?)
> > > I'm really confused now.
> > >
> > > A related question: according to the docs at
> > > http://www.opensrs.org/dotinfo_info.shtml , the selection
> > process will
> > > occur by running through the backlogged queues at random
> > every seven
> > > days (at least, that's the interpretation I got out of it).
> > >
> > > So even if it's now random within those queues and submission date
> > > doesn't matter, it's only random over the given seven day period,
> > > right? That is, if there's one submission for example.biz
> > in the first
> > > seven day round, that person will automatically get the
> > domain, and a
> > > person who later puts a submission into the second round is out of
> > > luck. So it's still first come, first served, in that
> > sense, correct?
> > >
> > > I also note that the intent of the .info queue process is that the
> > > queues grow smaller and smaller until the registry ends up
> > operating
> > > in real-time (this is specifically stated for the sunrise
> > period and
> > > implied for the landrush period). So there, again, at some
> > arbitrary
> > > point nobody can predict in advance, it will shift to first come,
> > > first served, right? So again, getting them in early is important.
> > >
> > > Please clarify. Thanks!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
