Dear All, I had a chance to talk to present my comments to the IRD-WG yesterday against their call for public comments. During the discussion, one thing I realized was that though we are assuming certain roles and responsibilities (e.g. Registrant as owner/provider of data, registrar as maintainer of data etc.), the community may not have a clear and cohesive view on them. Thus, I ask if ICANN documents these roles anywhere? Else, we should not assume them and perhaps revisit them. Regards, Sarmad ---- Dr. Sarmad Hussain Professor and Head Center for Language Engineering (www.cle.org.pk) Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Sciences (www.kics.edu.pk) University of Engineering and Technology (www.uet.edu.pk) G.T. Road, Lahore PAKISTAN