Jim, Jim Reid wrote:
This layer 9 stuff aside, I'm still uncertain whether the assignment goes to the registry itself or to some operator who provides name service for TLDs (or ENUM, for that matter). The former makes more sense to me.
I am still not certain the latest draft resolves this confusion either.
I strongly believe that the assignment should go to the registry and not the provider of registry or DNS services for that registry. Even if these are the same entity, their roles and their responsibilities are different. On a practical level, the TLD or Tier-1 administrator might want to split their anycast assignment between DNS providers: say discrete /24s to each of them. This wouldn't be easy to do (or change) if that anycast assignment was held by their registry operator. And suppose the registry has a serious disagreement its registry operator or the back-end provider changes when the contract goes out to tender.
I agree that the assignment should go to the registry. -- Shane