[registrars] Registrant's primary source of authority.

["Robert F. Connelly" <rconnell@psi-japan.com>]

At 09:51 AM 8/30/02 -0400, Tom D'Alleva wrote:
>Siegfried,
>Quite the contrary!  Registrants (that are the administrative contacts) are
>bound by their agreements, hence the problem.

Dear Tom:  IMO, the registrant has the authority.  It is an historical 
artifact that the old NSI whois did not have the email address (or phone or 
FAX) of the registrant.  Thus, the practice developed to assume that the 
Admin contact has "apparent authority".  If a registrant came to me and 
asked for a change, after obtaining evidence that he/she/it is who 
he/she/it claims to be, I'd carry out the instructions -- which could 
easily include firing the Admin contact.

Regards, BobC