I heartily endorse this.
Me too. While we're endorsing escrow, we should be sure they escrow registry data as well. And perhaps in the interests of transparency, publish periodic reports of who's making escrow deposits where and how often.
On Mar 16, 2007, at 4:51 AM, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
Resolved that: Recognizing that the public Internet users are intended beneficiaries of ICANN should strike the "no third-party beneficiary" language from its Registrar Accreditation Agreements and Registry Agreements;
ICANN should promptly adopt a schedule and provisions for escrowing of data from all registrars, as envisioned in RAA 3.6.
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.