I agree with the position that the core question is: WHAT/WHICH fields need to be authoritative?

The WHO, and especially the HOW for verification, are other discussions, mostly involving a discussion between ICANN, Registries, and Registrars.

Sam L.

On 4/5/2017 1:30 PM, John Bambenek via gnso-rds-pdp-wg wrote:

Isn't the question of WHAT is authoritative the question here? WHO is authoritative is another discussion.

My view is that authoritative means what is either what is entered by the domain owner (or given via proxy for whois privacy, which should be free to all entities) or an identical copy of it kept in sync with any changes made by the owner as they are made. In so far as "accurate" data is required, it should be after verification of the data by the consumer for whatever fields have to go through verification.

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