Quicksearch
Calendar
|
September '10 |
|
||||
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | |||
It's Requirements Panel time again!
Wednesday, May 28. 2008
Next week I'm back in Brussels at .EU registry EURid's headquarters for a day. It's the fourth .EU Requirements Panel (RP) meeting, where representatives from 7 registrars meet with EURid staff to work on improving .EU.
The panel looks at "requirements" and sorts them in order of priority so that EURid's development team can then include them in their schedule. I consider the RP a fine example of a registry working in an intelligent manner to improve itself and its product (.EU in this case) by involving its sales network (the registrars).
The RP is a EURid initiative, and EURid controls it. But having already taken part in 3 meetings, I can say that the registrars' views are what counts. Membership on the RP was by invitation only, and EURid has tried to put together a panel that would be a good representation of its registrar community as a whole. The 7 registrars are: Ascio, Ezone, Home, Key Systems, Registerit, Strato and us.
INDOM was honoured to be asked to get involved. Some people may see this type of participation as simply investing time to help improve things for the competition, but I don't. On the contrary, I'm certain that working with other colleagues for the community as a whole is the only way for this industry to grow and mature.
The agenda for next week's meeting includes:
- a look at how the continuity of the work being undertaken by the RP can be ensured;
- the current status of the top 20 requirements the panel voted on at the previous meeting;
- what new requirements should be looked at, and;
- a vote for the next top 20 requirements.
As RP members we really are there to represent the .EU registrar community as a whole. So if any registrars reading this have any issues with .EU they'd like addressed, please get in touch.
Who in their right mind uses info@ as their main point of contact?
Who in their right mind takes an entire registry offline during office hours for maintenance / upgrades?
Why on earth don't they have a grace period of some kind? Why are registrants suffering due to their ineptitude?
Regards
Michele
I will make sure this is forwarded to EURid.
I already raised a couple of these points on the registrar mailing list months and months ago. They said they were going to look into it, but nothing more happened
I also fail to understand why they can't publish domain expiry / renewal dates in whois. It causes issues for registrants, but wouldn't compromise privacy
Michele
