ICANN is gathering responses to the proposed renewal of .NET registry contract.

Attached is a discussion draft for BC response prepared by Elisa Cooper (with edits by Mikey O'Connor and Steve DelBianco)

On our 21-April BC member call, we discussed our approach for this comment, and there was universal support to request Verisign to have a "Thick WHOIS" service in .NET

Elise and Mikey added two additional requests based on new gTLD registry contract requirements:

- Add TM Claims Service once the TM Clearinghouse is operating.

- Add URS (Uniform Rapid Suspension)

ICANN's Comment period closes 10-May. Our member call on 21-Apr was 21 days before deadline, and today's draft is circulated 8 days before deadline.

We can submit this response later if members feel they need the entire 14-day review and discussion period.

Please review and post your suggestions/edits as soon as possible. If there are no disagreements noted by 10-May, this response will be adopted without a voting period, and posted to ICANN.

For topic background, see http://icann.org/en/public-comment/#net-renewal

Thanks again to Elisa Cooper and Mikey O'Connor for drafting this comment.

Regards,

Steve DelBianco

Vice chair for policy coordination