|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Bruce Tonkin [mailto:Bruce.Tonkin§melbourneit.com.au] 
|> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 4:37 PM
|> To: 'dns§lists.auda.org.au'
|> Subject: [DNS] Software maintenance licences
|> 
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|> Registrars will try to differentiate themselves by providing
different
|> levels of service.
|> The service agreement is the domain name licence.
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Disagree and this type of lumping together of different services under a
domain name licence needs to be discouraged with regards to the
terminology used.

Yes, Registrars and resellers offer different *additional* services with
their domain name registrations but they are not actually a part of the
domain registration.  They are *addon* services and actually have no
bearing on the domain name registration.  There should not be any legal
linkage between the initial domain name registration and the additional
services.

Service agreements may contain references to both the domain name
registration and the additional services provided but bodies like AuDA
should not be influenced by any additional services provided and confine
themselves to elements under their Charter only, with respect to the
development of any policies and procedures.

Nor should AuDA and other bodies endorse any practices where a domain
name registration is not an individual aspect of any transaction.  What
I'm talking about here is a practice of resellers and Registrars, not
giving the domain name registrant full possession of the registration
but retaining ownership over the domain name to control the user in
their hosting and other service preferences.  A practice I personally
deplore.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch.