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

[Gomes, Chuck]

Without minimizing the important impact on 2nd level domain name registrants, the terms direct and indirect are really very straight forward.  ccTLD and gTLD registries apply directly to the IFO for root server actions and hence are direct customers of the IFO. In the gTLD world this is similar to the relationships of registrants with registrars and registries; registrants are direct customers of registrars and indirect customers of registries.   What is confusing about this?

Chuck

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From: cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org [mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Avri Doria
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 1:49 AM
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Subject: [CWG-Stewardship] Direct customers vs. the rest of stakeholders



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:

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.

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.

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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