> How is Verisign better? They let me, as Technical contact, modify the > domain. They let me change the admin contact. This means that when a > client says "yes I'll transfer" I change the admin contact to *me* then I > can approve it all from this end without having to worry about Verisign's > stupid and misleading messages.
Does this mean that OpenSRS who will only send the OpenSRS username and password to the admin contact for dot-com is stupid too? Just a question. > This is also how CDN*Net did a better job of managing the .CA namespace -- > as tech contact I could change the admin contact. Sometimes the > "technical" contact is responsible for technical information such as > street address and e-mail address for the contacts. Same as above. This is the old regime and the newer regimes dont allow that. > Possible solutions to CIRA's issues: > 1. allow tech contact to modify domains No. > 2. alleviate the burden by using domain/password instead of > account/password No. The OpenSRS system is proprietary. You can't force OpenSRS to use our system and there is a universe beyond OpenSRS and other registrars need to be allowed to have their own system. > 3. alleviate the burden by allowing user-assignable account/username and > user-assignable password. Thats not actually a bad idea. > 4. give registrars the contractual ability to modify a domain based on > *their* authentication (read: I make a change in manage.opensrs.net and it > doesn't need to be approved at cira.ca) There is a simple problem with this. I'll assume that you understand the arguement that CIRA wants to ensure that the organization in question is making the request to change the information. Lets move from that -- since its a well known fact that many third parties (thats you -- the reseller since your not a registrar) keep these authentication tokens. Why? Because we don't believe that enough make it clear (or even let the customer know) that you have such a token. So my solution to you is simple. If the organization is willing to trust you that much then why don't you just list yourself as the admin contact when you register the domain name? Really thats what your suggesting. If we trust the tokens then we don't need the admin contact really since you the ISP have the tokens and can just make the changes for them. It's really the same thing with the exception that your client knows fully what you can do. > The junk we're facing right now WRT changing RANT type, but needing to > have *that* authenticated at CIRA is pushing me to suggest a price > increase on our .CA sales from CA$65/yr to significantly more, if only to > discourage registrations and/or recover our losses. You mean the legal type? Why is this such a big deal? I think your problem here is with OpenSRS because this is a simple (and I'm 99% sure non-authenticated). If you mean changing the registrant name itself see above. > > Can we expect to see a change in this realm in the nearer future? > A mechanism to allow registrars to change admin contact is a possibility (it was always the long term intention). However that is registrar *staff* and not their resellers. We can't hold you accountable the same way we hold a reseller accountable. Your password picking idea isn't half bad though. I've scribbled it down on my list. > -kb > -- > Kris Benson > ABC Communications > +1 (250)612-5270 x204 > +1 (888)235-1174 x204 > --- Paul Andersen (InterNIC:PA137) [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Gate Communications Inc. T: +1 (416) 447-7700x23 "The Trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was." - NANOG
