Hello, I support there being a PDP for this topic, but not for this topic in isolation. In particular, their reasoning: "This issue must be resolved through the GNSO Vertical separation of registries and registrars is a policy issue – one of the most fundamental policies underlying ICANN’s regulation of the domain name industry. And yet this important policy change is being handled as if it were an “implementation” decision that can be inserted into new gTLD contracts. Although ICANN’s management has commissioned economist reports on the topic, there has been no GNSO process to make a policy change. We fail to see how a policy as important as this can be changed without a GNSO proceeding. We are deeply concerned by what appears to be yet another case of staff-made policy. " also applies to issues like Elimination of Price Caps, and the IRT. Those are major and fundamental *policy* changes. As such, they must *all* be resolved through the GNSO before any new TLDs go forward. Sincerely, George Kirikos 416-588-0269 http://www.leap.com/ On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:56 AM, BC Secretariat<secretariat@bizconst.org> wrote:
The Non-Commercial Users Constituency have requested a Policy Development Process to examine the issues of registry-registrar separation. Their statment is attached. The Council will vote on the NCUC motion at our next meeting in three weeks. Based on our recent BC position paper, the BC Councilors expect to support the motion.
Please reply 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: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Mary Wong Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 9:01 AM To: council@gnso.icann.org Subject: [Bulk] [council] NCUC statement on vertical integration
Hi all
To help move things along at Thursday's meeting, I'm attaching NCUC's statement on the issue of Registry/Registrar vertical integration to this email.
I hope it will clarify some of the questions that some of you may have about why NCUC believes this is a policy issue for the GNSO. I would have sent it before today, but I took the weekend to see if other NCUC members had final comments or additions to make to it.
Thank you!
Best, Mary
Mary W S Wong Professor of Law Franklin Pierce Law Center Two White Street Concord, NH 03301 USA Email: mwong@piercelaw.edu Phone: 1-603-513-5143 Webpage: http://www.piercelaw.edu/marywong/index.php Selected writings available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=437584