Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. In order for this work to be truly effective and broadly applicable, it is important that accepted definitions act as the foundation. This document is an attempt to create a starting point for the requisite dialogue that will ultimately foster the determination and acceptance of these new protocols. This document obsoletes .
Contacts are individuals or entities associated with domain name records.
There are typically three of these contact types associated with a domain name record, the Administrative contact, the Billing contact and the Technical contact. The administrative contact should be able to answer non-technical questions about the domain name's registration and the SLD Holder. In all cases, the Administrative Contact is viewed as the authoritative point of contact for the domain name, second only to the Registrant. The technical contact is the individual, role or organization who is responsible for the technical operations of the delegated zone. The individual or organization that registers a specific domain name.