Robert and all, It's clear if one reads the so called "Fail-over Plan" that is is fundementally flawed as it does not provide what so ever for "Fail-over" of a registry in that ICANN is back peddeling on its earlier promise to cover the possibility of a registry failure. Ergo, unless public funding for such a calamity be provided in ICANN's stead, the registry that is failing will fail fully at some point and perhaps that is how it should be according to some. The only other possiblility is to find a "White Knight" that is willing to put up their own financing to run/manage the failing registry. But most of these are going to want some sort of "Deal" by which they have no or little liability in case they are unable or not fully able to bring a dying registry to good health... Microsoft or Google comes to mind here... -----Original Message-----

From: Robert Guerra <lists@privaterra.info> Sent: May 30, 2008 8:40 AM To: At-Large Worldwide <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [At-Large] ICANN gTLD Registry Failover Plan (fwd)

I would like to second John's proposal. I thus propose that Patrick's offer to update ALAC on the gTLD Registry Failover Plan be - it on our next conference call, or added to our Paris meeting agenda.

thank you.

Robert

On 30-May-08, at 8:02 AM, John Levine wrote:

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Patrick Jones asked me to pass this along.

Since registry failover actually does affect both registrant and non- registrant users, and is something ICANN can actually do, I'd encourage the ALAC to take him up on his offer.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 23:21:18 -0700 From: Patrick Jones <patrick.jones@icann.org> To: "johnl@iecc.com" <johnl@iecc.com> Subject: ICANN gTLD Registry Failover Plan

John,

I have seen the comments on the ALAC list regarding the gTLD Registry Failover Plan. Quite a lot of work has gone into the draft gTLD Registry Failover Plan since the public version was last posted in November 2007. See http://www.icann.org/registries/failover/. An updated version of the plan will be made available in advance of the Paris meeting.

If ALAC would like an update in Paris on the Failover work, please let me know.

Feel free to pass this on to the ALAC list.

Regards,

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