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

["William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson@greendragon.com>]

Taking the comments out of order:

> From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
> Incidentally, the current order of the category list is
> alphabetical.  That is because of a comment by business interests

Oh.  I was swapping the order to make the definitions of abbreviations
in the correct order.  For example, TLD is currently defined in 5 but
used in 4.  I supposed that alphabetical is OK, it just requires more
rewrite of the text.  (The current text _does_ need some revision.)


> I have a concern about the apparent circularity of the registrar
> definition.

I don't see the circularity.  I think we agree that we don't like the
current text which requires a contractual relationship with a registry.

The replacement changes that to update priviledges of the zone file, and
authorization by ICANN.  More text?


> 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;
> >

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