Hi!
It may indeed be that only registries (only registries are members of CENTR) need to be involved in TLD issues.
Is there another view ?
Basically, if they come to common standards, then there's no need to intervene 8-)
Hope you are aware that the registrars under COM/NET /ORG are allowed to have different policies as well.
I'm not only talking policies. Having a common standard on that level would be nice, but it's not the only issue. The technical/workflow part of the delegation process might be subject to "some" standardisation. Every registry has its own collection of templates, fields that *must* be filled, rules about SOA records/whatever. Modify-Requests, registering nameservers, deleting domains, all this is different for each country.
I'm not against harmonization but you may also be aware the most commonly used policy, the one from NSI, is considered a debacle, at least with respect to marks. Would it help if anybody would adopt something that is considered a flop ?
I not only find the policy of NSI sub-optimal, but also its whois response format (among other issues).
I'm not sure whether this deviation from common ground is obvious to the TLDs themselves, as they normally only deal with their own TLD 8-)
We know quite well what's happening outside our territory, don't be afraid ;-).
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