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[Julian DeMarchi <julian AT jdcomputers.com.au>]

On 06/15/2012 01:18 AM, Jamyn Shanley wrote:
> I think it is important to include redundancy in the whois design, so
> that if a registrar server crashes, goes offline, the disk is
> corrupted/dies, whatever - there is another full copy of the db at the
> tier0 server. Some of the current registrars provide no contact method
> or page, and others have been somewhat unreliable, service-wise.
> Anyway, my point is if the data is worth keeping, we should probably
> store it in at least 2 places, plus require backups (maybe a formal
> OpenNIC backup server for zonefiles and TLD data, encrypted
> per-registrar of course?). I could volunteer a VPS for something like
> that.

Lets create a OpenNIC whois policy aye? Can anyone lead this effort?

> Another thought - if whois data is served for everyone from a central,
> master server (and the registrars just push data/updates to that
> server), it forces standardization of the data. It also makes it easy
> to notice replication problems between the registrar and the master
> server, so they can be resolved.


An OpenNIC policy could cover how all this should be run I thinks. :)

--julian