Ondrej, Brett, thanks for your considerate responses. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 05:21:15PM +0200, Ond??ej Surý wrote:
in one single place three paragraphs down. I'd prefer if the term would be avoided and "Authoritative TLD or ENUM Tier 0/1 DNS lookup services" be inserted at the appropriate place.
We could probably change this, but I think that the reasoning behind this definition was not only to use it as reference, but also to say that these DNS servers are different - all other domain names depend on them.
I respectfully suggest we don't even try to go down this path and for the reasoning I'd like to refer to Mohsen's message. He hit the nail on the head.
matter). The former makes more sense to me. "TLD manager/administrator as described in RFC 1591" might be more acceptable.
I did some reading on IANA website and maybe the problem is that each of us imagine different thing under "defined by IANA" since I didn't find anything like this on IANA website.
If you mean that some IANA document(?) ``defines'' the term, then that'd not be a problem. The way it is written looks like IANA would define _who_ the operator is. I assume we agree that's not the case, so
"designated manager for TLD as delegated by IANA" be OK
is better, but "recorded" would even better reflect the point that this is only to make sure there's a single database that is to be consulted -- and not how entries got in there.
As a side note, ENUM Tier 0 assignments would probably have interactions with the policy proposal on "Assignments to the NCC".
Not to forget this ...
ITU documents use these terms:
[...]
"ENUM administrator as assigned by the ITU"
I doubt that since ITU may have defined the term (then quote that reference) but does not assign the administrator rights. Similar to the TLDs, it's probably more important to give guidance where the list of operators is available. I'd assume that the ENUM Tier0 operator has such a list (and would have it independent of the fact that this is again the NCC with a different role). Regards, Peter