An RSP may have a business relationship with other organizations; for example, an RSP may use a cloud provider for infrastructure needs.
A gTLD applicant needs to disclose all the RSPs supporting the critical functions, and those RSPs must be successfully evaluated in the RSP program. The different types of RSP can be found in question 4 of this FAQ.
Organizations, such as connectivity or hosting providers, do not need to apply separately in the RSP program, but they may need to be included based on the criteria of the questions.
For example, third-party suppliers of infrastructure, software or personnel may need to be included based on the criteria of the questions. If an applicant runs a registry system in-house but developed by another organization, information about such a system will need to be included in their application based on the criteria of the questions. However, if another organization is running the registry system, the third-party organization must be independently evaluated in the RSP program as a Main RSP.