Re: Draft minutes of ripe22-dnswg

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    I take this as a suggestion to correct the minutes
That's one thing. Another purpose the message was
meant for is to make clear that *only* technical
issues in the questionnaire will be answered.

    actually the main reason to collect such information
    which emerged during the WG was to help the TLD
    administrators in their task by knowing how other
    countries do that and having the possibility to
    keep themselves aligned to the mean behaviour if
    they wish, in order to reduce as much as possible
    disputes about registration requests.
I'd say that TLD administrators are very capable
of communicating. So in case they need to align
anything with other TLD administrators, they can
be assumed to know the way to contact those other
administrators. The only thing that *might* be
useful in this context is an up-to-date list of
(e-mail addresses of) TLD administrators; but the
InterNIC in fact already has that information in
its whois service. And spreading the same info
over different entities without there being any
automatic update procedure between them will only
lead to problems: one easily tends to forget in
which places certain information is stored, so
the info in one or more of those places may get
out of date. So please keep such information in
*one* place only!
And about "mean behaviour": it's an illusion that
such a thing exists. Some countries have very
strict rules, others are much more "liberal", to
put it mildly.


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