So I joined this IRT, I guess December last year. I agree this one has/is taken a long time for reasons I do not know. I was not part of the WG, so I do not carry much history. The last few months we made a lot of progress I think. We set a time line based on several factors and I happen to think I been driving and pushing this one with several other Registrars. Amount of connections, speed of connections, size of Registrar, that not every Registrar is aware and a ton of other reasons, including Registrars to do their own legal analysis to see if they can migrate the data. I understand as Steve rightfully pointed out, that this one took way to long. My first thought is how can we prevent this in the future. What I do not understand is why we want to speed things up. With so many delays we are facing new realities. I think Steve DelBianco made some good pointers during the Helsinki meeting. Personally I feel like I am dealing with some old decision made in 2012 and now it is 2016 and we are facing issues and the IRT can clean it up. Wich is okay, and it is not that the system is broken or anything, but what do we gain from speeding things up, it is like I am missing something here? Why do we want to shower Registrars with money who migrate the first week? What do we gain as a community? Thanks Theo Geurts On 16-8-2016 20:35, Susan Kawaguchi wrote:
I agree with Steve that we should look at incentives to move the transition of domain name registrations to the Thick Whois. And I agree that relying on compliance to enforce after 18 months is not acceptable due to the compliance team’s collaborative actions with registrars, simple issues take much longer than they need to take, this could push the timeline much farther down the road.
What if ICANN stepped forward and offered a monetary incentive to move the registrations to Thick Whois within a much shorter time frame? A small reduction in fees for example.
I am sure there are other positive incentives that we could come up with but if not transparency is always valuable to the ICANN community as a whole. Susan Kawaguchi Domain Name Manager Facebook Legal Dept.
From: <gnso-impl-thickwhois-rt-bounces@icann.org <mailto:gnso-impl-thickwhois-rt-bounces@icann.org>> on behalf of Steven Metalitz <met@msk.com <mailto:met@msk.com>> Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 11:24 AM To: 'Jody Kolker' <jkolker@godaddy.com <mailto:jkolker@godaddy.com>>, Rob Golding <rob.golding@astutium.com <mailto:rob.golding@astutium.com>>, "gnso-impl-thickwhois-rt@icann.org <mailto:gnso-impl-thickwhois-rt@icann.org>" <gnso-impl-thickwhois-rt@icann.org <mailto:gnso-impl-thickwhois-rt@icann.org>> Subject: Re: [Gnso-impl-thickwhois-rt] Open Item 7b - Coordination/Incentive for Registrars Migration to Thick
Let’s remember why we are having this conversation.
Thick Whois is a consensus policy. And the registrars, through this implementation process, are giving themselves eighteen months (from the date the registry production system opens – a year from now) to achieve compliance with that policy. I agree that at that point (February 2019 under the current timetable), failure to provide the required data to the registry will be a matter of contract compliance under the RAA (though I would contest that it becomes “public at that point”).
The question we are discussing is whether there are any incentives that can be created so that registrars will provide the required data to the registry within a period of less than 18 months. Incentives can be positive or negative. Making public the extent to which each registrar is providing the required data on existing registrations, at some point during the 18-month period, certainly could provide some incentive. The reaction below (and others on this thread) demonstrate pretty clearly that a registrar would not wish to appear on a public list that shows a relatively low percentage of registrations for which the data has been provided to the registry. I would call that an incentive for the registrar to move faster toward full achievement of thick Whois than it might otherwise do. That is how a negative incentive works --- if you don’t do X, then you suffer some detriment. In this case that detriment takes the form, to use Rob’s term, of “naming and shaming.” It does not take the form of contract compliance action, because that does not apply until the 18 months have elapsed.
I agree it may be of no immediate value to the registrar to have this information made public. Value to the registrar is not what we are talking about here. We are talking about whether making this information public will give registrars an incentive to come into compliance faster than they are required to do (under the deadline they have set for themselves through this group). Accelerated compliance would benefit the credibility of ICANN and of the multi-stakeholder model, both of which are losing credibility the longer this implementation process drags on. It could benefit competition, which is another way of saying it could benefit those registrars who move relatively faster toward thick Whois. It would benefit transparency. And it would benefit the public (ultimately it was the benefit to the public that motivated ICANN to adopt this consensus policy in the first place). But no, it would not benefit the registrar that is simply aiming for compliance at the end of 18 months.
What I am drawing from this thread is that the registrars in this group do not want to see any incentives provided for them to do their jobs faster than the 18 months they have decided on as the deadline for doing the job. This is disappointing but certainly not surprising. It is a perfectly legitimate position for registrars to take based on their own self-interest, but it gives short shrift to the other interests noted above, including competition, transparency, and the credibility of the multi-stakeholder model.
I would certainly welcome any other suggestions for incentives – positive or negative – to encourage registrars to complete their role in achieving thick Whois in less than 18 months.
Steve Metalitz
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*From:*gnso-impl-thickwhois-rt-bounces@icann.org <mailto:gnso-impl-thickwhois-rt-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:gnso-impl-thickwhois-rt-bounces@icann.org] *On Behalf Of *Jody Kolker *Sent:* Friday, August 12, 2016 6:51 AM *To:* Rob Golding; gnso-impl-thickwhois-rt@icann.org <mailto:gnso-impl-thickwhois-rt@icann.org> *Subject:* Re: [Gnso-impl-thickwhois-rt] Open Item 7b - Coordination/Incentive for Registrars Migration to Thick
+1.
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Hi
I cannot see a single valid reason why any form of unnecessary "naming and shaming" relating to a work-in-progress could benefit anyone - verisign producing a X% completed report is fine, but no details need to be "public" relating to any individual registrar.
If the deadlines are not met, that'll be a compliance issue, and public at that point
If the deadline has not yet been reached, there is no benefit to providing fuel for a fire that din't need to be lit and serves no useful purpose
The Registrant (ultimately the only party that matters) isn't asking for this policy, isn't (obviously) benefited by the policy, and publicising sensitive corporate data about their chosen registrar could well be seen as doing demnstrable harm
Rob -- Rob Golding rob.golding@astutium.com <mailto:rob.golding@astutium.com> Astutium Ltd, Number One Poultry, London. EC2R 8JR
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