RE: Charter last call summary

[Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>]

Peter Mott wrote:
| 
| > Registrant : "Entity" that wants to register a domain.
| > Registrar  : "Entity" that requests (to a registry)
| >               the registration of a domain for a registrant.
| > Registry   : "Entity" that accepts and holds registrations
| >              for a registrar.
| 
| The above role definitions are certainly the ICANN/gTLD view.
| 
| As we move to an Internet guided more by legal contract than technical
| specification, I think you will see some modification to this view.  I see
| the act of registration being the execution of a legal binding contract
| between registrar and registrant.  Part of that contract requires the
| registrar to insert a record into the register (administered by the registry
| operator) for publication onto the public Internet.
| 
| The scenario above clearly places the registry in the business of providing
| registrars with a public database.  From a contract perspective, quite
| different to having registrars asking a registry to register a name.
| 

I like very much your approach, it stress out the responsabilities.

Kind regards,
Elisabeth Porteneuve