Volker,

What types of cases are you thinking of?  And how do reseller agreements in these cases reflect that difference?

In either case, are we talking about a true legal "principal-agent" relationship? (Defined as "A consensual relationship created by contract or by law where one party, the principal, grants authority for another party, the agent, to act on behalf of and under the control of the principal to deal with a third party. An agency relationship is fiduciary in nature [to the benefit of the principal], and the actions and words of an agent exchanged with a third party bind the principal."?  Or are we using the term "agent" more loosely?

Thanks for any light you can shed on the topic.

Greg

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 5:49 AM, Volker Greimann <vgreimann@key-systems.net> wrote:

This is not always the case. Many resellers are more like agents of the registrant than agents of the registrar.

Best,

Volker


Am 03.01.2017 um 23:51 schrieb Alan Greenberg:
How resellers work is relatively straight forward. They are agents working on behalf of a registrar. The handle the transaction and often ongoing contact with the registrant. Some registrars have no resellers, others some resellers, and some registrars only work through resellers and have no direct registratns. Of course, you may find that a reseller is really a subsidiary of the registrar (or in some other business relationship with them other than purely a reseller).
 
Until relatively recently, ICANN took the position that since they had no contract with resellers, they had no control over what resellers did. In more recent RAAs, there are explicit clauses which require that if a registrar delegates anything to resellers, that they must ensure that the reseller fulfill any obligations that the registrar would have if they were dealing with the registrant directly. Past RAAs only covereed some of these requirements but my recollection is that the current RAA pretty much puts a registrant in the same situation regardless of whether they are dealing with the registrar directly or a reseller (I may be wrong about that, but that is my recollection).

Of course, it is up to the registrar to ensure that these obligations are followed, or ICANN compliance to identify places where they may not be doing so.

Is that any clearer?

Alan



At 03/01/2017 02:56 PM, Stephanie Perrin wrote:

Happy New Year all!  You are probably going to hate me because I am going to slow us down again.  The problem is that we frame the discussion and thinking so very differently, depending on the expertise that we bring to this debate, that understanding the minutiae is very important.  For instance on  a recent call I questioned whether an individual needed to look at WHOIS to see who their registrar is, and was promptly corrected in this matter.  Naive person that I am, I had never plumbed the depths of the reseller business, and I am not finding much useful information on the ICANN site that will help me do this (please help and point me to how this happens, what kind of contracts pass on obligations, how this is interpreted under DP law, why I cannot find my registrar on any of the lists of ICANN accredited registrars, consumer protection obligations under US law, how this works in the privacy proxy business etc.).  IN my responses to the questionnaire, I have pointed out that it is the registrars and registries or their agents that collect/generate the Thin data.  The proposed RDS, which at the moment is still protean, is not an entity, cannot collect etc, but is instead a display mechanism or automated disclosure instrument.  So framing this in terms of collection is in my view quite misleading, unless I am totally misunderstanding the poll (always possible).

Anyway if anyone can help me understand how resellers work I would be most grateful.  It would probably also save us a pile of time if I understood it better, if that can possibly incentivize some brave soul.....

cheers Stephanie Perrin



On 2017-01-03 10:31, Gomes, Chuck wrote:
A few weeks ago one of our WG members said something to me that I think might be a good challenge for many of us as we begin 2017:  “I think people (including me) need to snap back to attention. I think we lost focus because of the incredible amount of lost traffic on minutiae that was so hard for non-ICANN insiders to follow.”
 
If this applies to you, I hope you will respond.
 
I can tell you that no one gets more frustrated with minutiae than me.  I have just been at this for so long that I have learned minutiae for one person is important to someone else so I have realized that I have to have a lot of patience.  Still, I often find myself wanting to push faster ahead and the leadership team has to pull me back.
 
It has taken us about 11 months to get to where we are and it may seem like we have made very little progress but I am hopeful that we have laid some building blocks that will make our work ahead easier.  We need to all keep in mind that the ICANN community has been grappling with Whois (RDS) issues for most of its 18-year existence with very minimal progress.  If we are going to change that pattern, we will have to be patient and persistent.
 
As we ended 2016 we reached the critical deliberation stage of Work Plan Phase 1. None of us should think that that will be easy or quick; it won’t be.  But I am confident that we will start to see more concrete results of our efforts.
 
I encourage all of you to start off this year by completing the poll that was distributed last week.  You have until Friday of this week to complete it.  Here is the link to the poll:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/V3CWZBL .
 
Happy New Year.
 
Chuck



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