Alan,
I do not believe that there is any policy or requirement
that registrars offer registration periods of one year. And it should be
noted that not registrars require one-year registrations.
Chuck
Mike, one of the other things that the registry service would do is
effectively introduce the concept of reducing the effective minimum
registration period from one year to one month, without the benefit of any
ICANN policy discussion. That may be worth mentioning in the
motion.
Alan
At 12/04/2010 02:28 PM, Mike Rodenbaugh wrote:
The BC makes the following motion
for Council consideration in our next meeting, and would appreciate a
‘second’. In sum, we request that the Council ask ICANN Staff to ‘slow
down’ the process of approving Versign’s latest RSEP proposal and accept
community input on it. Thanks.
Whereas,
Verisign has recently made a proposal for an additional registry service
called “domain exchange” for the .net TLD. http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/verisign-dnex-05apr10-en.pdf
Whereas, it appears the
proposal may permit resumption of abusive “domain tasting” activities which
have been curbed by the AGP Limits policy, and therefore appropriate
limitations on the proposed registry service must be
considered.
RESOLVED:
The Council requests that
Staff make the preliminary determination that this RSEP proposal requires
further study and public comment, because it could raise significant issues
with security and stability and/or competition.
Mike Rodenbaugh
RODENBAUGH
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