Earlier today ICANN commenced its 15-calendar day
preliminary determination period on requests submitted by NeuStar and Afilias
to address domain tasting. See http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/.
The NeuStar request is 2008001 (http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/biz-proposal-full-version-05feb08.pdf),
while the Afilias request is 2008002 (http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/afilias-request-05-feb08.pdf).
The requests are essentially the same except for where Afilias and NeuStar use
different billing systems. I understand that Jeff Neuman already provided a
copy of their submission to the Council yesterday.
Patrick
Patrick L. Jones
Registry Liaison Manager &
Coordinator, ICANN Nominating Committee
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Tel: +1 310 301 3861
Fax: +1 310 823 8649