June 2009 - Bc-gnso - lists.icann.org

Regarding JPA expiration
by Steve DelBianco June 23, 2009

June 23, 2009

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Documents to review for Wed meeting on Improving Institutional Confidence (IIC)
by Steve DelBianco June 23, 2009

June 23, 2009

Just a follow-up to our BC meeting today, regarding tomorrow¹s session on Improving Institutional Confidence (IIC), a project of the President¹s Strategy Committee (PSC) PSC¹s May-2009 draft plan is at http://icann.org/en/jpa/iic/iic-the-way-forward-31may09-en.pdf See Appendix C for the PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH AN INDEPENDENT REVIEW TRIBUNAL This draft responded to some of the concerns raised by BC members ATT http://forum.icann.org/lists/iic-implementation-plan/msg00006.html NetChoice http://forum.icann.org/lists/iic-implementation-plan/msg00011.html ICC/BASIS http://forum.icann.org/lists/iic-implementation-plan/msg00002.html -- Steve DelBianco Executive Director NetChoice http://www.NetChoice.org and http://blog.netchoice.org +1.202.420.7482

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NetChoice blog post from Sydney
by Steve DelBianco June 23, 2009

June 23, 2009

http://blog.netchoice.org/2009/06/pausing-for-breath-on-a-didgeridoo.html Pausing for Breath on a Didgeridoo The didgeridoo performance that kicked off this week's ICANN meeting in Sydney prompted Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush to marvel at how the player produced a continuous sound without pausing for breath. The didgeridoo could become the official instrument at ICANN, which pushes ever forward with its plans, often without pausing to respond to the legitimate concerns of stakeholders. ICANN has a lot on its plate this week -- the upcoming expiration of its formative agreement with the U.S. Government, the introduction of hundreds of new top-level domains (TLDs), internationalized TLDs, and internal restructuring, just to name a few. What's concerning is that with such a loaded agenda, ICANN seems to be succumbing to an artificial sense of urgency, trying to mow through complex, challenging policy changes without taking the time needed to get the policy right. One example of this trend was Monday¹s discussion of vertical integration among registries and registrars. It's a complicated issue, and one that could have serious ramifications for all Internet users, as I tried to point out in my comments: > Allowing registries (wholesalers) to be owned by registrars (retailers) and > vice versa may have some beneficial effects for the market, but also may have > severe unintended consequences for Internet users in the business community > and elsewhere. > > The economists brought in by ICANN talked about market power problems with > exclusive or preferential vertical contracts. But registrants are also > impacted by old fashioned spite and rivalry, if it compromises market > performance. For instance, some registrars choose not to sell some TLD > domains because they don¹t want to enrich a competing registrar who¹s running > the TLD registry. > > This isn't just hypothetical concern -- it's happening today with the dot me > TLD. .me is a GoDaddy project, so some rival registrars don¹t even show .me as > an available TLD. If I¹m a registrant in .me, or trying to build a social > network around .me domains, I lose when inter-registrar rivalries suppress > registrations (and traffic) in the TLD. The complexity and lack of consensus on the issue was illustrated by the free-flowing (and long-running) debate that followed the discussion, but the buzz in the hallways is that ICANN is in a hurry to make a final determination on this issue to clear the way for the introduction of new top-level domains. Unfortunately, that buzz is a familiar tune, since ICANN often deems that meeting its own deadlines is more important than achieving real consensus on serious issues. As much as we enjoy the continuous sound of the instrument, it may be time for the organization to stop and take a breath. --Steve DelBianco

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Links to Working Group workspaces
by Mike Rodenbaugh June 23, 2009

June 23, 2009

At request of a BC member today: Registration Abuse Policies Working Group: https://st.icann.org/pdp-wg-ff/index.cgi?fast_flux_pdp_wg Fast Flux Working Group: https://st.icann.org/reg-abuse-wg/index.cgi?registration_abuse_policies_work ing_group I am BC rapporteur on both these issues, and happy to have any comments, questions, assistance from Members. Thanks, Mike Mike Rodenbaugh Rodenbaugh Law 548 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94104 +1.415.738.8087 www.rodenbaugh.com

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FW: cross-constituency meeting in Sydney
by Mike Rodenbaugh June 23, 2009

June 23, 2009

Fyi the presentation from APWG, given to the Cross-Constituency meeting today. Please advise with any comments or questions. Thanks, Mike Mike Rodenbaugh Rodenbaugh Law 548 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94104 +1.415.738.8087 www.rodenbaugh.com -----Original Message----- From: Rod Rasmussen [mailto:rod.rasmussen@internetidentity.com] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 6:43 PM To: Rod Rasmussen Cc: Claudio Di Gangi; jscottevans(a)yahoo.com; Laura Mather; mike(a)rodenbaugh.com Subject: Re: cross-constituency meeting in Sydney Claudio, Thanks for having us in again to present! Given all the questions, it looks like these issues remain important to the various constituencies. If any of your members have further questions, we'd be happy to respond. Here is a copy of the presentation - feel free to distribute to the constituencies. Best Regards, Rod Rasmussen President and CTO, Internet Identity Co-Chair, APWG Internet Policy Committee 1 (253) 590-4088 rod.rasmussen(a)internetidentity.com

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FW: Important--Regsitry Registrar Separation issue
by Mike Rodenbaugh June 21, 2009

June 21, 2009

FYI the site at www.registryregistrarseparation.org. I know this issue is of serious concern to many members. Adam Palmer and Jeff Neuman have agree to present briefly and take questions at our BC meeting on Tuesday. All comments welcome, and it would be wonderful if a member or two wanted to lead the BC thinking and engagement on this issue. Thanks, Mike Mike Rodenbaugh Rodenbaugh Law 548 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94104 +1.415.738.8087 www.rodenbaugh.com -----Original Message----- From: Adam Palmer [mailto:APalmer@pir.org] Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 5:51 PM To: Adam Palmer Subject: Important--Regsitry Registrar Separation issue All, Please see the below site on registry/registrar cross ownership. ICANN will also be having a panel on this on Monday. Strong vocal support is welcome both on the website and at the ICANN Monday panel meeting. Please forward this site link to anyone else that might support our concerns on this issue. Let me know if any questions. Thanks, Adam Palmer Link: http://www.registryregistrarseparation.org/supporters

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BC events -- Sydney
by Liz Williams June 19, 2009

June 19, 2009

Hello everyone We have a fully subscribed set of events at the Sydney meeting. 1. Business Stream Luncheon, Monday 22 June, Zeta Bar, Sydney Hilton. 2. Business Stream Board Reception for Business Leaders, Tuesday 23 June 18:45 - 19:45 in the Ballroom Foyer. 3. Cross Constituency breakfast, Tuesday 23 June, 08:00 - 10:00 -- look out for the signs for the location If you CAN'T attend, please let me know as we have a waiting list. If you HAVEN'T responded, it's too late -- we are at full capacity. I am delighted with the response that we've had to all of our events and look forward to seeing you soon. Thanks to the Gary in the Secretariat for all of his assistance. Liz ... Liz Williams +44 1963 364 380 +44 7824 877 757

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Welcome to Infinity Portals
by BC Secretariat June 19, 2009

June 19, 2009

Dear Members I am please to welcome Infinity Portals LLC as new members of the BC. Infinity is represented by Berry Cobb who has written an introduction about himself and his company Best wishes Gary --------------------------------------- Berry is the owner of Infinity Portals, a Domain Management & IT Consulting LLC based in the State of California. His two year old company manages a domain portfolio and develops on-line content across Political, Social Networking, Information Technology, and Environmental channels, much of which are in the development stage. Berry's experience comes from the Information Technology industry and has worked for companies like IBM, Adobe Systems, and Kaiser Permanente. He has global exposure across Retail, Financial, Government, Bio-Med, Healthcare, Education, and Entertainment industry segments with a proven record for implementing service best practices that enable companies to execute in an optimal manner and with high degrees of customer satisfaction. His core competencies reside in the areas of process development, implementation, performance reporting, and continual improvement. Only after starting his company did he begin to learn of ICANN's existence and operating model. Berry considers himself as an ICANN rookie and understands the steep learning curve ahead of him. ICANN Mexico of 2009 was Berry's first. He is eager to increase his knowledge of ICANN via active participation and he hopes to contribute a fresh and useful perspective to this dynamic, community driven industry. Berry looks forward to meeting everyone on the BC.

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Most Popular Invalid TLDs Should Be Reserved
by George Kirikos June 18, 2009

June 18, 2009

Hi folks, Some of the root server operators post public statistics for their domain name traffic at the top-level. For example, the graph (which can take a bit of time to generate, given ICANN's slow servers) for the L-root server's most popular TLD queries: http://stats.l.root-servers.org/cgi-bin/dsc-grapher.pl?window=604800&plot=q… demonstrates, to no one's surprise, that .com is king. What's more interesting, though, especially given the new gTLD debate, is to look at the most popular invalid (non-existent) TLDs: http://stats.l.root-servers.org/cgi-bin/dsc-grapher.pl?window=604800&plot=q… This list will vary depending on caching and the geographical location of the root server, but for the L-root, .local, .belkin, .home, .lan, .invalid .domain, .localdomain, .wpad, .corp, .maps, .html, .router, .host, .mshome, .htm and so on show popularity in the past week. Given what transpired with the wildcarding of .cm http://www.circleid.com/posts/nation_of_cameroon_typosquats_com_space/ and the current lack of a prohibition of wildcarding for new gTLDs (despite our own input into the public comment periods), it's clear that these TLDs will be in demand by those who hope to take advantage of the built-in DNS traffic hardcoded into routers, LANs and other private networks, and from typos of existing TLDs. I recommend that the Security and Stability Advisory Committee compile statistics on invalid TLD queries across all root servers, and from popular ISP-run DNS servers, in order to create a Reserve List. The list of at least the top 1000 invalid TLDs should be made public to ensure transparency, and be pruned only with the consensus support of the community. Sincerely, George Kirikos 416-588-0269 http://www.leap.com/

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Dot-Pro tries to get fee reductions from ICANN
by George Kirikos June 18, 2009

June 18, 2009

Hi folks, The following letter posted to ICANN's website might be of interest: http://www.icann.org/correspondence/sigmar-to-pritz-17jun09-en.pdf where a registry who already had a contract with ICANN is trying to gain one-sided concessions. In the world of ICANN, if you're a registry operator, you can promise the world when you apply for a new gTLD, but if things don't work out, you simply ask for concessions. The rule should be "a contract is a contract is a contract" (unless it's an anti-competitive one that is against the public interest, like the monopoly dot-com contracts, where the government or the courts should feel free to break/void those contracts to protect consumers). Go back to their initial business plan/application/approval: http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/pro2/ http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/pro2/Registry%20Operators%20Proposal.htm http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/prelim-report-14mar02.htm In D13.2.2 of the 2nd link: " A detailed profit and loss account that provides a breakdown of revenue and costs on a monthly basis. From a revenue perspective, we have assumed that RegistryPro commences operations in month 6 and that during the initial sunrise and landrush period, 1,000,000 registrations are sold. After this period, registrations are anticipated to be approximately 90,000 a month and increase at between 0% to 10% per month depending on the level of marketing activity." Keep reading the above links for their fiction about the "demand for .pro", their marketing plan, etc. (and keep that in mind whenever you read anything from new gTLD advocates, including ICANN). And then go back to their letter to ICANN saying: "A lower fee would enable the registry to invest in marketing and branding initiatives that will make us competitive with other similarly sized registries." Hmmm, what about your original BUSINESS PLAN??? .pro is a failed registry, with only 36,000 registrations after 6 years. It should be put out of its misery and be phased out of the root. They should serve as a poster child of why new gTLDs are a bad idea. Sincerely, George Kirikos 416-588-0269 http://www.leap.com/

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