[NA-Discuss] Update on Consumer Constituency Charter Changes
Eric Brunner-Williams
ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net
Fri May 6 17:08:22 UTC 2011
Beau,
I've not paid attention to this particular constituency (or
stakeholder group) application, though I paid very close attention to
the earlier application for urban areas.
It seems pretty clear from the language that the drafters of the
proposal don't view stub resolvers as "consumers", though this is
pretty much the view of the DNS technical community, that browsers and
mailers and anything else that uses the DNS invokes a stub resolver to
start the name to resource resolution sequence of query and response
exchanges between an edge device and some recursive or non-recursive
server somewhere else.
If the BC is the entity which advocates for the self-interest of
on-line vendors-for-cash of goods and services, then is the CC the
proposed entity for the self-interest of the counter-parties of those
on-line vendors-for-cash of goods and services, whether they are
called "customers" or "purchasers" or "consumers" or ...
Would it be fair to characterize this application as being made by
parties to monitized transactions, also known as retail on-line sales?
Do they care how their non-transactional email works? What about
whether wikipedia resolves correctly? Are they vegetarians or do they
just eat yams?
Eric
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