Thank you Bruce for the clarification.

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Bruce Tonkin wrote:

[...]
> The ".au" environment is now much closer to the gtld environment of .biz and
> .info, and soon to be .com/net/org.  In this environment it is not standard
> practice to inform the owners of nameservers of the changes.  It is expected
> that registrants would have informed their providers before making changs in
> names server entries.

Experience from the real world suggests that this view may be a little
optimistic :-(

It also isn't too useful in cases such as where a domain becomes
undelegated due to expiry (e.g. the registrant no longer exists).

> However I agree it has been a useful service in the past and we will
> consider developing the software to do that in future.

Yes please.

I'm even tempted to suggest that this is a sufficiently basic service that
it perhaps should have been in the registry (as distinct from registrar)
spec.  I guess it's too late now?

Regards,
Neale.