[arin-ppml] Comments on Draft Policy 2010-3: Customer Confidentiality

[Kevin Kargel]

> 
> kind of begs the question, who is the "customer" here doesn't it?
> if I am getting numbering resources from my RIR, then I am their
> customer and I should have final say in what is entered into their
> DB.  If, on the other hand, I am the customer of, say CSnet (using
> a long-dead company for reference) then CSnet is the customer of
> the RIR, not me and I have zero say in what CSnet, as the RIR
> customer, places in its registration entries/database.
> 
> SWIPS and LEOs (CALEA) sort of want to insist that someone, in this
> case the RIR, maintain accurate, public records of folks who are
> not the RIR customers/clients.
> 
> --bill 


So maybe "end user" would be a better descriptor than customer?