<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">While I have no objection in the abstract to authoritative being used on the sense of ‘according to some recognised authority’, I’m not sure that is relevant to our discussions.<div class="">I’m not aware of any external authority.that are discussing here, mostly it we were talking about validation it was validation against a process (such as ensuring email was valid) rather than validation </div><div class="">to an external authority. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I still believe that this sense of authoritative is NOT the same as the sense in which we origioonally used the rm within the requirements, and which prompted the current discussion, which is the data theoretic sense loosely congruent to the way the term is used within the DNS - which is to say, the best source of data *internal* to the system. An authoritative data source in that sense would be e.g. the registry direct, rather than a cache or by a proxy. And the ongoing confusion keeps bringing me back to you wanting to avoid the term if we can’t keep definitions straight for 5 minutes. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">David</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 1 May 2017, at 8:56 pm, Sam Lanfranco <<a href="mailto:sam@lanfranco.net" class="">sam@lanfranco.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class=""><p class="">From Paul Keating's posting and in terms of my comments:</p>
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<li class=""> here the adjective "authoritative" would not not mean
"recognized as true, valid" <br class="">
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<li class="">here the adjective "authoritative" would mean "o<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">fficial,
authorized"</span></li>
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The best that can be done here is to have official, authorized,
Data of Record from a Source of Record.<br class="">
The struggle for data quality is an ongoing struggle, here,
everywhere, and always. <br class="">
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What the Data of Record data set consists of, and build with a
sensitivity to purpose, seems to me to be the main rds-pdp-wg task
here.<br class="">
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As to who has access to what and under what terms, ICANN might set
some terms there, but ultimately ICANN,<br class="">
as a stakeholder there will play an advisory role. National and
multilateral policies will rule above ICANN policy. <br class=""><p class="">Sam L. <br class="">
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