Re: Changes we'd make to EPP, was Re: Domain check in draft-obispo-epp-idn-00.txt

On 17/01/12 16:29, Patrik Fältström wrote:

> On 17 jan 2012, at 09:48, Theo Kramer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I can see none. Garbage collection is a function of registry maintenance imo.
> 
> A registry can not know if an existing contact record is to be connected to a
> domain name that is to be created, as by definition contact records must exist
> with the registry that is not connected to any domain object.

Those registries that already do garbage collection (.fr comes to mind
immediately) have rules on when garbage collection happens. In their case,
it's six months of inactivity on the contact.

Besides, I'm proposing a (contact) garbage collection mechanism for the
benefit registries, not registrars. It has a secondary benefit for registrars
in that it gives a standard mechanism for those registries that wish to do
garbage collection to notify registrars of the pending deletion of object.

The data management needs of a registry can get quite unwieldy. Moreover,
certain countries have data retention laws that affect how long a registry
might be able to legally hold on to data that they don't actually have a
reason for retaining. In both cases, and those are far from the only ones,
it ought to be possible for a registry to perform garbage collection on
effectively dead unlinked objects, just so long as the registrar who
created them receives notification.

An open question is when the the registrar should receive notification. I
think the notification ought to be a notification that the objects are due
to be deleted, maybe the day before the object is due to be purged, as this
would give the registrar an opportunity to clean up on their end to avoid
situations such as the one you raised.

K.

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