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

[Alan Greenberg]

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On May 22, 2015 1:49:16 AM EDT, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> 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.
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>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.
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>Avri

I think that the difference is that registries interact directly with IANA to make changes in the root and it is the responce to these changes that we are measuring wrt the SLEs.  
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