Bret:

 

Well, maybe we need to define what a re-delegation is.

 

This is the history as far as we know it.

 

The Puerto Rico ccTLD was originally delegated to the University of Puerto Rico via its Gauss Research Laboratory unit under Dr. Oscar Moreno’s tutelage in 1989. It has been like this until December 21, 2006. The ccNSO Application for .pr, which you can find at:  http://ccnso.icann.org/applications/archive/msg00062.html,  shows the University of Puerto Rico/Gauss Laboratory as its manager.  It is interesting to see that there were two previous application to the ccNSO  showing different managers (see http://ccnso.icann.org/applications/archive/msg00044.html , http://ccnso.icann.org/applications/archive/msg00052.html).

 

In our opinion the move happened because last year the Government of Puerto Rico investigated (ISOC-PR started the process) the whereabouts of the administration of the .pr ccTLD.  In its final report, one of the recommendations was to re-delegate the administration of the .pr to a non-for profit organization by using the IANA established procedures and to create a multi-disciplinary board of directors to manage it. The final report was accepted by the Puerto Rico Senate in November 7, 2006. Apparently, Dr. Moreno read the report, created the non-for-profit corporation and then moved the administration of the .pr to the new corporation. The board of directors for this new corporation is just Dr. Moreno. The committees that are mentioned in its web site are just that, committees. Final decisions on .pr are set by one person only. Did you all know that a second level .pr domain cost $1,000/year?

 

We heard about the move because some people at the University of Puerto Rico were (and are) very upset about it.  My understanding is that by moving the administration of the .pr to the new organization the University was left out cold. To me this was a re-delegation without due diligence.  

 

Is this defined as a re-delegation or not?

 

Eduardo Díaz

President

ISOC-PR

 

From: Bret Fausett [mailto:bfausett@internet.law.pro]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 2:16 PM
To: ediaz@prtc.net
Cc: 'NA Discuss'
Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Re-delegation of the Puerto Rico ccTLD - .pr

 

I can't find anything either. Typically, the IANA is supposed to post reports on redelegations on this page of the IANA site:

 

http://www.iana.org/reports/cctld-reports.htm

 

I don't see anything for Puerto Rico. Also, the ICANN Board typically reviews and approves redelegations, and again, I cannot find any discussions of .PR in the last three years:

 

http://icann.org/minutes/index.html

 

How do you know this is a redelegation? I'm very curious about this. Please update us when you have more thoughts on what has happened.

 

         Bret

 

 

On Jul 16, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Eduardo Diaz wrote:



 

All:

 

I am looking for some advise/direction.

 

We (the Internet Society of Puerto Rico) recently found out that the Puerto Rico ccTLD - .pr – was re-delegated to a new non-for-profit organization on 21 December, 2006.  I looked all over the IANA web site for any public documents regarding this re-delegation and could not found anything except the info in the Who Is database.  I wrote an email to Mr. David Conrad and ccNSO secretariat but did not receive any feedback regarding this issue.

 

Can anyone in the NARALO help us in directing us to the right information source? We are very eager to understand how this happened without going through the due diligence that characterized these re-delegations.

 

 

Eduardo Díaz

President

ISOC-PR

 

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