Danny and all, With all due respect, although I, nor any of our members advocate eliminating the AGP, and in that the consensus of the ALAC/ALS'es was to do so, keeping the AGP only serves to exacerbate the Credit Card fraud problem rather than manage it. In fact requiring a credit card to register a domain name in the first place also only exacerbates the credit card fraud problem, rather than manage it, all for what I would think are obvious reasons... Additionally, requiring any potential registrant to use a credit card to register a domain name is decidedly a restraint of trade, as well as a huge potential for exposier of IDtheft. -----Original Message-----
From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> Sent: May 3, 2008 8:48 AM To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> Cc: NA Discuss <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] [Fwd: [ALAC-Internal] FW: Call for Comments on GNSO Domain Tasting Motion ... ACTION Required for RALO's and ALS input]
Let's be clear about something... the Registrar Constituency's primary argument in favor of retaining the AGP is for its use as a device within which credit card fraud may be managed. At the very least, if we will be arguing to eliminate the AGP, we should be offering up an alternative and suitable way to mitigate Registrar fraud concerns if we hope to arrive at a consensus-based solution.
The only way that I can think of having this accomplished is via new language in a Credits Section within the Service Level Agreement that is part of the relevant Registry-Registrar Agreement -- see for example http://www.verisign.com/static/002136.pdf
This, of course, will require cooperation from the Registries who may not be prone to re-drafting their agreements.
Does anyone else that is advocating AGP elimination have any concrete suggestions to deal with the fraud concerns that can be put on the table?
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