Jan. 14, 2016
2:51 a.m.
b) Because there has not been a consensus policy on the deployment of tiered access, if a registry wants to deploy tiered access they'll need to ask for a contractual waiver/amendment c) Registries have asked for and been granted amendments permitting/requiring tiered access without any policy process.
Approximately every registry and registrar appears to have tiered access to their port 43 servers, if only in ways that relax or remove rate limits. Do they all have waivers? R's, John PS: That's a real question. I have no idea.