At 1/5/01 9:00 PM, Don Brown wrote:
>At 05:00 PM 1/5/01 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>>(2) Allow Renewals only through the current RSP, as opposed to allowing a
>>>renewal with any RSP. If the customer wants to transfer, then he can
>>>transfer via the transfer system discussed above.
>>
>>Fine - but (as mentioned before) I do think we should wait until we have
>>the RSP to RSP transfers automated...
>
>Why wait? We're in favor of being consistent with this from the start. A
>customer can follow the current procedure for transfers until the automated
>transfer system is in place. After all, that's the best transfer system we
>have right now.
>
>There is no downside to the customer or OSRS to implement the renewal
>procedure now. The only potential downside is to the RSPs, if we wait.
>
>What am I missing? What is the compelling reason to wait?
The reason to wait is that some of us need to renew domains from other
RSPs, and OpenSRS is heavily discouraging RSPs from doing inter-RSP
transfers right now. If the policy you suggest is immediately
implemented, it would be very difficult to renew these domains.
In addition, there's another situation OpenSRS needs to take into account.
I bought another RSP's customers, and OpenSRS policy is that I cannot
transfer the other RSP's customers to my existing reseller ID without
getting each customer's permission. I'd like to discontinue use of the
old reseller ID, but getting permission from every last customer to make
some sort of invisible switch is clearly impractical even if the
transfers are automated.
Because of that, the "renew anywhere" policy is actually a large benefit
to me. I can renew the customers of both reseller IDs with only one
script, instead of having to set up two different sets of scripts at
different URLs and manage which customer goes to what URL (a nightmare).
So I NEED the renew anywhere functionality (or a flag I can set that says
"allow this domain to be renewed anywhere").
I'd much prefer, of course, that I could merge all the old customers into
a single reseller ID without having to get each customer to agree to it,
but I've been told in no uncertain terms that that will never happen.
OpenSRS folks, any possibility that might change, given the new
circumstances?
[I a reply similar to this yesterday in response to another message, but
it didn't appear on the list that I can see. My apologies if it arrives
twice for others.]
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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
