Darlene, These are the relevant minutes: 2. Reported cases of non-compliance issues with the RAA B Brendler called the attention of the ALAC to a number of comments received concerning specific compliance issues (onlineNic, GoDaddy) and referred to D Younger’s comment requesting the ALAC to advise the ICANN Board to revoke the accreditation of failing registrars. C Langdon-Orr said these cases could be used to serve in the RRA WG. At ALAC level they can only be discussions in terms of principles of registrar/registry relations since ALAC does not have the resource to do due diligence. V Scartezini said there should be a fast-track between ALAC and the Council for these individual cases to be addressed to the Council staff who would do a formal due diligence. A Greenberg said there needed to be a liaison to which these issues could be brought, a streamline procedure. The ICANN Board would not intervene for such operational issues at the level of isolate cases. W Seltzer noted that the OnlineNic court issued a default judgment. Default judgment does not indicate that a court evaluated the merits of the case. A Peake suggested that the issue of registrar compliance could be put on the agenda for the ALAC-Board meeting in Mexico. ALAC members will discuss online about the proper conduit. H Ullrich will create a Wiki page with the current registry/registrar relations that will serve as a discussion point at the Mexico meeting. ALAC will arrange a teleconference call with services staff and any other party before the next ALAC meeting. C Landon-Orr and A Greenberg will contact NARALO to clarify ALAC role on this matter. H Ullrich will place the discussion about the role of each structure: RALO’s, ALAC and ALSes on the Mexico Agenda Here's the bottom line: The ALAC has one primary duty under the bylaws -- to bring legitimate user concerns to the attention of the Board... and it isn't happening. Instead, what we get is an "it's not my job" attitude. We get nothing but excuses: "we don't have the resources to do due diligence", or let's send this issue to a WG (while knowing full well that the WG is a black hole where nothing gets done). What we are seeing is issue avoidance rather than an honest effort to bring user concerns to the board. The ALAC was presented with clear and damning evidence of GoDaddy transfer policy violations on a silver platter -- nothing less than an actual recording of the very words of CEO Bob Parsons discussing the violations during his own radio show... and yet the ALAC remains unwilling to honor the bylaws by advising the board of these concerns. The ALAC is continuing to prove that it is an institution so totally dysfunctional that no amount of corrective measures can repair it -- it's long past time to give this body a proper burial. --- On Tue, 2/3/09, Thompson, Darlene <DThompson@GOV.NU.CA> wrote:
From: Thompson, Darlene <DThompson@GOV.NU.CA> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] OnlineNic, again To: "NA Discuss" <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 1:42 PM I haven't read or listened to the minutes from the ALAC meeting. Was this brought forward to ALAC? If so, what WAS the outcome from it?
Thank you to anybody who answers!
D
Darlene A. Thompson Community Access Program Administrator Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP P.O. Box 1000, Station 910 Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0 Phone: (867) 975-5631 Fax: (867) 975-5610 E-mail: dthompson@gov.nu.ca
-----Original Message----- From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Danny Younger Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 12:54 PM To: NA Discuss Subject: [NA-Discuss] OnlineNic, again
Last month we discussed the OnlineNic situation.
From the minutes: "This is an ICANN accredited registrar that was convicted of cyber-squatting. ICANN should de-register them. Danny would like our rep at the ALAC meeting tomorrow to forward the view that appropriate enforcement action must be taken. Beau has seconded that. All in agreement."
Of course, to date, the ALAC has done nothing to specifically address the NARALO concern regarding OnlineNic's accreditation status. No surprise there as the ALAC is as close to useless as one could imagine.
Now we get yet another report that OnlineNic has been hit with yet another lawsuit (fourth one by my count) for trademark infringement -- see http://www.rfcexpress.com/lawsuit.asp?id=43567
One has to wonder how many more lawsuits it will take before ICANN recognizes that it has a very bad apple that must be removed from the barrel.
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