[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] The Whois roles are not well defined

[Steve Crocker]

Michele,

Thanks.  I take your point about the billing contact.  It too is supplied
by the account holder and may or may not have anything to do with the
person actually responsible for and capable of paying the bills.

Re the role of the name server operator, what other forum would you
suggest?  It's a long overdue discussion.  Moreover, since the reason it's
important is related to access to and modification of the account holder's
records, I think it really is within the scope of this discussion.  The
changes needed to accommodate the proper set of interactions between the
name server operator and the registrar/registry are closely related to the
interactions between the account holder and the registrar.  Further, it
will require identifying the name server operator in some fashion and hence
raise the same set of issues re privacy as we're talking about for the
other roles.

Steve


On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 7:14 AM, Michele Neylon - Blacknight <
michele at blacknight.com> wrote:

> Steve
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> You raise some interesting points.
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> In another forum there was discussion around some of the current roles
> used in whois and how they change. The data from several very large
> registrars showed that more than 95% of domains have the same contact for
> all roles.
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> I’d fundamentally disagree with your comment about the billing contact in
> whois. For most registrars (as noted above) it’s just a field that gets
> populated and isn’t used for anything.
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> If we want to reach the person who pays us we use what we have in our
> billing systems, which could easily be something completely different.
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> As for DNS operators – giving them an expanded role as you are suggesting
> (and not for the first time) has much wider implications than whois. While
> it might be something that is worth exploring I’m not sure that here is the
> best place to do it, as it opens up a rather large can of worms in relation
> to contractual relationships etc.,
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> Regards
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> Michele
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