Re: PAB [Fwd: DNSO Important update: The "Merged" Draft]

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 05:43:44PM +0000, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> Based on the wording suggestions so far today, here's what I have:
> 
> Current:
>     4.  Registrars: a DNSO member who is a registrar of
>     generic/global or country-code TLDs (defined as an entity with a
>     direct contractual relationship with a registry as defined
>     below),
> 
>     5.  Registries: a DNSO member who is a DNS Top Level Domain
>     ("TLD") registry (defined as an entity with write authority to a
>     zone referenced by a TLD),
> 
> Replacement:
>     2.  Registries: a DNSO member who is a DNS Top Level Domain ("TLD")
>     registry, defined as an entity that regularly publishes the
>     authoritative zone file for the TLD zones which have been delegated
>     to it by {ICANN};
> 
>     3.  Registrars: a DNSO member who is a registrar of generic/global
>     or country-code TLDs, defined as an entity authorized by {ICANN}
>     with direct update priviledges for a TLD registry zone file as
>     defined above;
> 
> Do we have consensus among ourselves on this wording?

I have a concern about the apparent circularity of the registrar 
definition.  One thing should be born in mind -- there is a 
"membership" committee that ajudicates these matters, so there is 
some human judgement involved.

Incidentally, the current order of the category list is 
alphabetical.  That is because of a comment by business interests 
-- they were wondering if there was some sort of representational 
priority implied by list order, and said that if not the list should 
be alphabetical.  While I think the point is not consequential, I am 
more than willing to concede it -- if only disagreements were so 
minor :-)

>  Who should propose
> this to the drafters of DNSO?

Proposals should be sent to proposals@dnso.org.

Kent

-- 
Kent Crispin, PAB Chair				"Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com				lonesome." -- Mark Twain