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[Mauricio Pasquier Juan <mauricio AT pasquierjuan.com.ar>]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 09:53:20AM -0500, Aaron J. Angel wrote:
> On 02/08/2013 09:46 AM, Simon wrote:
> >I think this may always be the case. When someone choses to register a
> >domain with a tld the agreement is with that tld not opennic per se. 
> >Perhaps
> >this should be made clearer. I see the relationship between a tld and
> >opennic core in a similar way to the relationship between a hosting or colo
> >provider and the company they buy their connectivty from.
> 
> That may be true, but there should be some sort of commitment to the
> group from the operator.  They are, after all, taking up a portion of
> our namespace to provide a service to their users.  We shouldn't have
> to put up with an operator taking up a portion of our namespace to
> provide non-functional service.

+1, but how to enforce it? It's a matter of trust, I think.

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