Public Comment: Proposal for Renewal of the .NET Registry Agreement
Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the following issue, which I've not seen mentioned yet in the ALAC Working List or the NARALO discussion list. In the period from the selection of ICANN as the New Entity to the present date, the single act that most reduced the monopoly in gTLD registry function was the redelegation of the .ORG registry, affecting, and benefiting, several millions of registrants and the users of their resolved resources for web pages, mailing list, and other programmatic resources. Given the competition policy rational for the existence of the corporation, and the obvious difference between establishment of new registries benefiting by a presumption of contract renewal, absent cause, and the maintenance of a legacy monopoly market, abusing the presumption of contract renewal, and the At Large purpose of representing the public interest, I propose that a comment be drafted to the effect that its signers, perhaps entire At Large regional organizations, even the At Large Advisory Committee, prefer that the presumptive renewal language not appear in legacy contracts currently held by the monopoly operator. The announcement by ICANN is here: http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-11apr11-en.htm Thank you all for your time and attention, Eric
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Eric Brunner-Williams