As part of contingency plans, I propose ICANN set up a trust-like feature to handle defunctioning registrars and registries. The trust should have a constituency-based board and managed by a competent party.
The purpose, a place to transfer the records while providing for a temporary repository where registrars won't be directly effected. The DNS should still resolve, registrants should still manage domains, and there should be an intent to transfer domains to a new registrar. Registries should also be reassigned to an entity that could continue management of the registry.
On a temporary basis, this trust-like structure should have all the necessary means to provide management while solving the issue of where to go from there. There should be firm contingency plans for this at some point.
As part of this entity, ICANN should fund an entity to have all-inclusive responsibility for this issue, not just contracting to an existing registrar or registry, where the possibility would exist that it too would become defunct.
Thanks,
Randy Glass
A@L
On 5/19/07, Danny Younger <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> wrote:
Ever since the RegisterFly mess started to become
apparent (an event that has impacted hundreds of
thousands of registrations), ICANN has been in receipt
of hundreds upon hundreds of comments from an angry
community.
Comments have been sent to the ICANN blog, to the
public participation site, to the ALAC Forum...
... and what has been the response of those of you
that claim to represent the public interest?
Discussions pertaining to dealing with the policy
issues raised by the RegisterFly event on every single
RALO list have been almost nil. This is pathetic.
You should be ashamed. You should be embarrassed.
Do any of you really care about the at-large, or are
you just playing at Internet Governance?
If you do care, then show me the proof of your
resolve. I want to see a policy recommendation and/or
issues report on all those matters that have affected
this registrant community. I want to see discussion.
To do any less will thoroughly demonstrate the total
farce that "structure-building" represents while a
fire is burning in your midst.
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