I believe that “Option 1: A dedicated reseller object” is the best route to go. I get the idea of creating a generic organization, but you need to consider the problem being considered and the difference of a registrar from a reseller.
1. A registrar (direct customer) has a direct relationship with the registry and is provisioned outside of EPP or any B2B protocol. A registrar organization would only support an info unless you enable a registrar to update their own record via EPP, which seems like a real stretch use case. 2. A registrar is automatically attached to the provisioned objects (e.g., domain, host, and contact) in the registry based on the create and transfer commands. There is need for tagging a provisioning object with a direct customer organization. The problem that is being considered is making the resellers visible at the registry level to support tagging of provisioning objects for display in RDDS, for applying registrar controlled reseller policy (security, financial, etc.) at the registry level, and providing registry provided reports and visualizations split out by reseller. Is there another problem that needs to be solved by elevating the reseller object up to the more generic organization? — JG [cid:[email protected]] James Gould Distinguished Engineer [email protected] 703-948-3271 12061 Bluemont Way Reston, VA 20190 VerisignInc.com<http://verisigninc.com/> From: regext <[email protected]> on behalf of "Hollenbeck, Scott" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, March 3, 2017 at 9:22 AM To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>, "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [regext] Working group action required on draft-ietf-regext-reseller-ext-01.txt From: regext [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Antoin Verschuren Sent: Friday, March 03, 2017 8:54 AM To: regext <[email protected]> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [regext] Working group action required on draft-ietf-regext-reseller-ext-01.txt No expressions of preference have been expressed for over a month now :-( I think the authors deserve good guidance from the working group so they can progress their drafts, so let me be the first to express my motivation. I hope we can discuss this in Chicago, so more opinions are certainly needed on the mailinglist! [chair hat off, personal opinion] I have a strong preference for option 2, a generic organization object, and a reseller mapping to such an organization object to identify resellers for a domain. [snip] Same here, though I don’t know if an organization object would need additional mappings or if it might be possible to just define roles for organizations. Bottom line is that I would prefer a generic organization object for all the reasons Antoin listed. Scott
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