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draft-mcpherson-sattler-transaction-report-02
Internet Engineering Task Force                             N. McPherson
Internet-Draft                                              1&1 IONOS SE
Intended status: Best Current Practice                T. Sattler, Editor
Expires: October 14, 2019                                 April 15, 2019

                            Transaction Report
              draft-mcpherson-sattler-transaction-report-02

Abstract

   This document describes the content of a Transaction Report based on
   the Report Structure and delivered by the Reporting Repository.

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Table of Contents
   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.1.  Internationalized Domain Names  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.2.  Dates and Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.3.  Character Encoding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.4.  Currency  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Report Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Transaction Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     4.1.  Standard Transaction Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     4.2.  Non-Standard Transaction Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   5.  Transaction Periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   6.  Transaction Fees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     6.1.  Deviating Fees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   7.  Registrar ID  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   8.  Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     8.1.  Single TLD File Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     8.2.  Multiple TLDs File Example  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   9.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   11. Implementation Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     11.1.  united-domains Reselling   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   12. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     12.1.  Normative References   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     12.2.  Informative References   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   Appendix A.  Change History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     A.1.  Change from 00 to 01  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     A.2.  Change from 01 to 02  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     A.3.  Change from 02 to TXN 00  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     A.4.  Change from TXN 00 to TXN 01  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     A.5.  Change from TXN 01 to TXN 02  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   Appendix B.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9

1.  Introduction

   Modern top-level domain registries provide many detailed reports and
   documents that their registrars require on a daily, weekly and
   monthly basis. These most commonly include transaction reports, as
   well as lists containing currently unavailable domains and current
   premium domain fees. These reports are critical for registrars'
   businesses and play an important role in accounting and operations
   processes as well as in sales and marketing activities. In the
   current set-up, registrars must download these reports from each
   registry's intranet differently according to each registry's document
   management set up.
   
   This document describes the content of a Transaction Report based on
   the [I-D.mcpherson-sattler-report-structure] and delivered
   by the [I-D.mcpherson-sattler-reporting-repository].
   
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2.  Terminology and Definitions

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119] when
   specified in their uppercase forms.
   
2.1.  Internationalized Domain Names

   MUST be as defined in
   [I-D.mcpherson-sattler-report-structure].

2.2.  Dates and Times

   MUST be as defined in
   [I-D.mcpherson-sattler-report-structure].
   
2.3.  Character Encoding

   MUST be as defined in
   [I-D.mcpherson-sattler-report-structure].
   
2.4.  Currency

   MUST be as defined in
   [I-D.mcpherson-sattler-report-structure].

3.  Report Headings

   The first row MUST be the column headings in the following order:
   
   SVTRID            Server transaction identifier MUST be assigned
                     by and MUST be unique to the server.

   TLD               It MUST contain the top-level domain name formatted
                     according to section 2.1 of this document.
   
   DOMAIN            It MUST contain the domain name formatted according
                     to section 2.1 of this document.
   
   TIMESTAMP         It MUST contain the timestamp of the successful
                     transaction formatted according to section 2.2 of
                     this document.
   
   TRANSACTIONTYPE   It MUST contain the type of the successful
                     transaction according to section 4 of this
                     document.
   
   PERIOD            It MUST either contain the Period of the successful
                     transaction according to section 5 of this document
                     or MUST be empty if no Period is assigned to the
                     operation.
                     
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   TERM              It MUST contain the unit of the Period noted
                     according to section 5 of this document.
   
   FEE               It MUST contain the fee of the successful 
                     transaction according to section 6 of this
                     document.
   
   CURRENCY          It MUST contain the currency of the successful
                     transaction according to section 2.4 of this
                     document.
    
   REGISTRARID       It MUST contain the registrar ID of the succesful
                     transaction according to section 7 of this
                     document.
   
   DESCRIPTION       It MAY contain a free description of the successful
                     transaction.
   
4.  Transaction Types

   Each transaction MUST be assigned to a type. There are Standard
   Transactions and Non-Standard Transactions.
   
   A successful transaction is also a completed transaction. Therefore,
   transactions MUST NOT be deleted. If a operation MUST be cleared, a
   corresponding counter transaction MUST be made.

4.1.  Standard Transaction Types

   Standard transactions are considered to be CREATE, RENEWAL,
   AUTORENEW, TRANSFER, TRADE, UPDATE, RESTORE and REGISTRYLOCK.

   CREATE        A successful domain create within the reporting period.
   
   RENEWAL       A successful explicit domain name renewal executed by
                 the domain name registrar within the reporting period.
            
   AUTORENEW     A successful domain name auto-renewal by the domain
                 name registry within the reporting period.
              
   TRANSFER      A successful domain name transfer within the reporting
                 period.
              
   TRADE         A successful domain name trade within the reporting
                 period.
              
   UPDATE        A successful billable domain name update within the
                 reporting period.
              
   RESTORE       A successful domain name restore within the reporting
                 period.
                 This event MUST only include the restore fee. Any
                 additional renewal fee MUST be independently listed.
                 
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   REGISTRYLOCK  A successful billable registry lock applied to the
                 domain name within the reporting period.

4.2.  Non-Standard Transaction Types

   Non-Standard Transactions MAY be listed in the report and MAY receive
   a custom type, but it MUST have a corresponding description in the   
   description column.

5.  Transaction Periods
   
   Transaction Types usually occur in Periods of 1 to 10 years, and
   sometimes there are monthly periods. Therefore, each transaction
   MUST either have a Period associated or it MUST be empty if no Period
   is assigned to the operation.
   
   The Period format MUST be in the format <integer>, where
   <integer> MUST be unsigned and between 1 and 65535, without any
   leading zero

   The Term format MUST be in the format <character> and MUST be either 
   'y' for years or 'm' for months.
   
   If the number of months results in a full year, then the year MUST be
   used, e.g. instead of 12,m or 24,m, it should be 1,y respectively
   2,y.
   
6.  Transaction Fees

   All transactions MUST have a Fee associated. The fee amount, the
   currency and the period MUST be listed separately.
   
   Fees MUST either be whole numbers or rounded to two decimal places.
   The dividing point is a period (.).

6.1.  Deviating Fees

   If a domain name incurs a premium fee, that is not the standard price
   for the TLD, a description of the price category SHOULD be given.

7.  Registrar ID

   A unique registrar ID MUST be listed, with each transaction. Those
   IDs MUST be according to the IANA registrar IDs
   (https://www.iana.org/assignments/registrar-ids/registrar-ids.xhtml)
   where applicable, otherwise, another unique registrar ID MUST be
   used.

8.  Example

8.1.  Single TLD File Example

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   This is an example of a transaction report for a single top-level
   domain .example.
   
   Filename: example_transactions_2018-11.csv.gz
   
   SVTRID,TLD,DOMAIN,TIMESTAMP,TRANSACTIONTYPE,PERIOD,TERM,FEE,CURRENCY,
   REGISTRARID,DESCRIPTION
   54321-XYZ,example,nic.example,2018-11-08T08:01:01Z,AUTORENEW,1,y,10,
   USD,1,
   54322-XYZ,example,foo.example,2018-11-09T08:00:00Z,CREATE,3,y,10,USD,
   1,
   54323-XYZ,example,bar.example,2018-11-09T08:01:01Z,CREATE,1,y,1000,
   USD,1,PREMIUM A
   54324-XYZ,example,foobar.example,2018-11-10T07:00:00Z,RESTORE,,,40,
   USD,1,
   54325-XYZ,example,foobar.example,2018-11-10T07:00:01Z,RENEWAL,,,10,
   USD,1,
   54326-XYZ,example,xn--r8jz45g.example,2018-11-11T06:30:00Z,TRANSFER,
   1,y,12.75,USD,1,
   
8.2.  Multiple TLDs File Example

   This is an example of a transaction report for multi top-level
   domains by the example registry.
   
   Filename: example_transactions_2018-11.csv.gz
  
   SVTRID,TLD,DOMAIN,TIMESTAMP,TRANSACTIONTYPE,PERIOD,TERM,FEE,CURRENCY,
   REGISTRARID,DESCRIPTION
   54321-XYZ,example,nic.example,2018-11-08T08:01:01Z,AUTORENEW,1,y,10,
   USD,1,
   54322-XYZ,example1,foo.example1,2018-11-09T08:00:00Z,CREATE,6,m,9.90,
   EUR,1,
   54323-XYZ,example2,bar.example2,2018-11-09T08:01:01Z,CREATE,1,y,4000,
   BRL,1,PREMIUM C
   54324-XYZ,xn--0zwm56d,xn--fsqu00a.xn--0zwm56d,2018-11-10T07:00:00Z,
   RESTORE,,275,CNY,1,
   54325-XYZ,xn--0zwm56d,xn--fsqu00a.xn--0zwm56d,2018-11-10T07:00:01Z,
   RENEWAL,,70,CNY,1,
   54326-XYZ,xn--zckzah,xn--r8jz45g.xn--zckzah,2018-11-11T06:30:00Z,
   TRANSFER,1,y,1200,JPY,1,
   
9.  IANA Considerations

   This document has no IANA actions.
   
10.  Security Considerations

   The registry transaction report described in this document does not
   provide any security services.

11.  Implementation Status

   Note to RFC Editor: Please remove this section and the reference to
   
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   [RFC7942] before publication.

   This section records the status of known implementations of the
   protocol defined by this specification at the time of posting of this
   Internet-Draft, and is based on a proposal described in [RFC7942].
   The description of implementations in this section is intended to
   assist the IETF in its decision processes in progressing drafts to
   RFCs.  Please note that the listing of any individual implementation
   here does not imply endorsement by the IETF.  Furthermore, no effort
   has been spent to verify the information presented here that was
   supplied by IETF contributors.  This is not intended as, and must not
   be construed to be, a catalog of available implementations or their
   features.  Readers are advised to note that other implementations may
   exist.

   According to [RFC7942], "this will allow reviewers and working groups
   to assign due consideration to documents that have the benefit of
   running code, which may serve as evidence of valuable experimentation
   and feedback that have made the implemented protocols more mature. It
   is up to the individual working groups to use this information as
   they see fit".

11.1.  united-domains Reselling

   Organization: united-domains Reselling GmbH

   Name: Reseller Reporting System

   Description: Domain Reseller Platform

   Level of maturity: Deployed in production.
   
   Version compatibility: Version TXN 02 is implemented.

   Coverage: All aspects of this document are implemented.

   Licensing: Proprietary In-House software

   Contact: Tim Ettel <ettel@ud-reselling.com>

   URL: https://www.ud-reselling.com/en/

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12.  References

12.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.mcpherson-sattler-report-structure]
              McPherson, N. and Sattler, T., "Report Strucutre",
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mcpherson-sattler-
              report-structure/> (work in progress), January 2019

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

12.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.mcpherson-sattler-reporting-repository]
              McPherson, N. and Sattler, T., "Reporting Repository",
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mcpherson-sattler-
              reporting-repository/> (work in progress), January 2019

   [RFC7942]  Sheffer, Y. and Farrel, A., "Improving Awareness of
              Running Code: The Implementation Status Section", RFC
              7942, July 2016,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7942>.
   
Appendix A.  Change History

A.1.  Change from 00 to 01

   Added acknowledgements. Changed Y to lowercase. Fixed csv examples.
   Changed security considerations. Added SRTRID to identify
   transactions. Clarified successful transaction.
   
A.2.  Change from 01 to 02

   Clarified the Period. Fixed numerous typos. Changed limit for Period
   from 1-99 to unsigned 16 bit integer.

A.3.  Change from 02 to TXN 00
  Changed draft name. Added Term column to further clarify Period.
  Defined Standard  Transaction Types. Added Non-Standard Transaction
  Types. Changed Column order so that DESCRIPTION is at end.
  
A.4.  Change from TXN 00 to TXN 01

  Editorial changes.
  
A.5.  Change from TXN 01 to TXN 02

   Added implementation reference.
   
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Appendix B.  Acknowledgements

   The authors wish to thank the following persons for their feedback
   and suggestions (sorted alphabetically by company):
   
   o Jeff Yeh, Brandma
   o Elaine Pruis, Domain Research
   o Gaurav Vedi, Dominion Registries
   o Jody Kolker, GoDaddy
   o Roger Carney, GoDaddy
   o Tim Ettel, united-domains

Authors' Addresses

   Neal McPherson
   1&1 IONOS SE
   Ernst-Frey-Str. 5
   76135 Karlsruhe
   DE

   Email: neal.mcpherson@ionos.com
   URI:   https://www.ionos.com

   Tobias Sattler

   Email: tobias.sattler@me.com
   URI:   https://tobiassattler.com

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