[CWG-Stewardship] Direct customers vs. the rest of stakeholders

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Avri has summarised my thoughts about the topic more eloquently that I
could have ever done it.
Kind regards,

Olivier

On 22/05/2015 07:49, Avri Doria wrote:
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> On 21-May-15 23:29, Alan Greenberg wrote:
>> And yet, we have continually been told that as the direct customers,
>> only registries (perhaps with token other involvement) need to be
>> involved in a all sorts of decisions related to IANA.
> I have to admit I may be the only one who remains somewhat confused by
> the term direct customer:
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> Why is a registry which refers to a root server to make sure all of its
> entries are correct, more direct than a registrant or user who depends
> on a resolver that retrieves the data starting with the info in the root
> server for proper reference to the correct registry.  Both are dependent
> on the correct information to do their business and neither pays IANA
> for transactions with root servers.  They both make indirect reference
> to the data through the Root servers.  One needs data put in, and one
> needs to pull the data out.
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> The Registrants, Registrars and Registries are the ones paying to
> support the service, but it seems to me that both registries and users
> are relying on the service of IANA in a similar manner - we both access
> them through the root servers.
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> I have accepted the predominance of the  registries in the CSC partly
> because they were so insistent that at this step in the process, they
> had a SLA imperative.  But in the largest sense of whether the IANA was
> delivering in all of its aspects, I do not see a reason for abrogating
> the multistakeholder prerogative.
>
> avri
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