At 4:33 PM -0800 12/8/00, William X. Walsh wrote:
>Hello Derek,
>
>Friday, December 08, 2000, 4:27:42 PM, you wrote:
>
>> ICANN rules be damned. They're only mildly relevant actually.
>
>Nice that you think so. But that doesn't change the facts.
>
>OpenSRS cannot think that. Without their ICANN accreditation, we
>would not be able to register com/net/org domain names through
>OpenSRS.
>
>There *has* to be some protection for the registrant. I think the
>current policy strikes a balance between those interests that is
>admirable.
... and the registrant is the person who pays the registrar money.
If there are only two "people" in the equation, "registrant" and the
"registrar", can you enlighten me (and all of us) why the person paying the
registrar ISN'T the registrant?
In a reseller situation, where the reseller is not "defined" as a reseller
(by ICANN) the reseller is, himself, a registrant who is choosing to
surrender his registration shortly after (or immediately upon) registration.
My point is that SRS should make it easy for registrant/RSP's to reserve
names in the registrant/RSP's name, but to keep track of the information
requester/end-user would like to have associated with the domain, so that
the registrant/RSP can later transfer that domain to them at their leisure.
>I've said it in the past, and I'll say it again. If you want all the
>privileges of a registrar, become a registrar. One thing you will
>learn real quick is that these policies cannot be decided in the
>fashion you and others have proposed here.
There's nothing to lose. If _I_ pay the registrar, _I_ am the registrant.
I'm failing to see a legal basis otherwise. The flaw in the current system
is that the domain doesn't go into my name for me to re-assign to my
customer.
D
