[Fwd: Re: African Region finishes its MoU]
With or without RALOs, these are concrete issues of concern to individual Internet users. Should ALAC be writing reports, starting PDPs, or just letting its users' concerns lie? (I vote against the last option...) --Wendy -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] African Region finishes its MoU Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:55:49 -0800 (PST) From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> To: NA Discuss <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Re: "February has turned out to be a good month for the At-Large community" I guess that depends on who you talk to: (1) The registerfly.com debacle has already resulted in 75,000 domain name registrations that weren't processed in January owing to fraud and mismanagement. http://icann.org/correspondence/registerfly-notice-of-breach-21feb07.pdf (2) The Chair of the Registrars Constituency has revealed that ICANN has never implemented registrant data escrow protection by failing to provide a schedule, terms, and format for data escrow. http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg06000.html (3) GNSO Councilor Sophia Bekele has reported that two prominent domain name resellers have been denied membership in the GNSO Business Constituency (which they viewed as the necessary conduit that would allow for full participation in the GNSO IDN Working Group). These firms are Regtime of Russia and Karmania Media (Iran). The sordid details are at http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03256.html (4) The NCUC posts a press release describing ICANN as the Net's Word Police. http://www.bloggernews.net/14882 (5) The Eurid Registry (.eu) finds it necessary to create a Registrar Code of Conduct; Eurid will establish a platform to better log the flood of complaints against registrars (this is after having sued 400 registrars for breach of contract and having earlier suspended 74,000 domains). http://www.eurid.eu/images/Documents/CoC/code_of_conduct_en.pdf --- Nick Ashton-Hart <nick.ashton-hart@icann.org> wrote:
For those who don't already know this, the African ALS Community finished their MoU with ICANN and it went off to the Office of the General Counsel late last week.
The European ALS community will also be meeting in Lisbon and are committed to finishing work on their MoU and Bylaws there - making three (!) new RALOs at one ICANN Meeting.
Congratulations on all the hard work :) February has turned out to be a good month for the At-Large community :)
-- Regards,
Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN PO Box 32160 London N4 2XY United Kingdom Main Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011] USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 email: nick.ashton-hart@icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart@hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart@mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart
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Wendy, Thank you for posing this question. There are many activities in which the ALAC could be engaged; allow me to enumerate a few: (1) Registrants continue to be burdened with onerous Redemption Grace Period fees owing to a failure to introduce competitive elements at this point in a domain name's life cycle. A proposal was made in June 2002 that six months after the adoption of the Redemption Grace Period Proposal, ICANN's President should re-convene the Technical Steering Group to develop a Stage 2 specification which would enable registrants to choose the restoring registrar. -- see http://www.icann.org/bucharest/redemption-topic.htm Stage 2 development has never commenced. The ALAC could ask for this phase of the project to be inaugurated. (2) A trend is developing in the registrar community that thwarts the intent of the Transfers Consensus Policy, namely the charging of transfer-away fees. The ALAC could be commissioning research to determine the scope and magnitude of this problem that inhibits facile domain name portability. (3) There is a strong likelihood that certain registrars are gaming the renewal process to reap the benefits of the higher fee structure associated with redeemed names. The ALAC should be monitoring the registry monthly reports that cite restored name statistics in order to discern trends, and should be asking VeriSign to make public the Paragraph 14 [Restored Names - Per Registrar] data that it now provides under separate cover to ICANN. (4) There were over 10,000 complaints regarding registrars in 2006 that were sent to ICANN -- see http://www.icann.org/correspondence/ruiz-to-twomey-09feb07.pdf The ALAC should be insisting that these complaints be categorized within a ticketing system so that statistics compiled thereby may allow for a better policy formulation process. (5) There are a great many current Consensus Policies in need of review. The Deletes Consensus Policy has been circumvented by the Terms of Service Agreements used by every single registrar in the aftermarket game; the UDRP is in need of a major overhaul; and the efficaciousness of the WHOIS Data Reminder Policy is very much in doubt. Policy should not remain static, but should be reviewed on a regular cycle. (6) In the field of IDNs, there are those that participate on the CPSR Governance List that have expressed fear regarding the prospect of "language colonization" by the West. Further, the vast majority of all registries and accredited registrars are rooted in the West. We shouldn't be accelerating a global divide. The ALAC should be seeking to better advance global opportunities for participation by reviewing the proposed fee structure for new gTLD applications and by reviewing the established fees for accredited-registrar status (which imposes the requirement to demonstrate US$70,000 in working capital plus a $2500 initial fee along with $4000 annual fees and, of course, the variable fees). Aggressive participation in the GNSO IDN WG wouldn't hurt either. (7) Lest we forget, ICANN still hasn't acted to protect the registrant interest by establishing a schedule or format for registrar data escrow as seems to be stipulated in the Registrar Accredition Agreement and in the current ICANN Operating Plan. After the registerfly.com meltdown, the ALAC should be screaming for action. I'll stop at this point as ultra-long emails can be annoying. --- Wendy Seltzer <wendy@seltzer.com> wrote:
With or without RALOs, these are concrete issues of concern to individual Internet users. Should ALAC be writing reports, starting PDPs, or just letting its users' concerns lie? (I vote against the last option...)
--Wendy
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] African Region finishes its MoU Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:55:49 -0800 (PST) From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> To: NA Discuss <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org>
Re: "February has turned out to be a good month for the At-Large community"
I guess that depends on who you talk to:
(1) The registerfly.com debacle has already resulted in 75,000 domain name registrations that weren't processed in January owing to fraud and mismanagement.
http://icann.org/correspondence/registerfly-notice-of-breach-21feb07.pdf
(2) The Chair of the Registrars Constituency has revealed that ICANN has never implemented registrant data escrow protection by failing to provide a schedule, terms, and format for data escrow.
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg06000.html
(3) GNSO Councilor Sophia Bekele has reported that two prominent domain name resellers have been denied membership in the GNSO Business Constituency (which they viewed as the necessary conduit that would allow for full participation in the GNSO IDN Working Group). These firms are Regtime of Russia and Karmania Media (Iran). The sordid details are at
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg03256.html
(4) The NCUC posts a press release describing ICANN as the Net's Word Police. http://www.bloggernews.net/14882
(5) The Eurid Registry (.eu) finds it necessary to create a Registrar Code of Conduct; Eurid will establish a platform to better log the flood of complaints against registrars (this is after having sued 400 registrars for breach of contract and having earlier suspended 74,000 domains).
http://www.eurid.eu/images/Documents/CoC/code_of_conduct_en.pdf
--- Nick Ashton-Hart <nick.ashton-hart@icann.org> wrote:
For those who don't already know this, the African ALS Community finished their MoU with ICANN and it went off to the Office of the General Counsel late last week.
The European ALS community will also be meeting in Lisbon and are committed to finishing work on their MoU and Bylaws there - making three (!) new RALOs at one ICANN Meeting.
Congratulations on all the hard work :) February has turned out to be a good month for the At-Large community :)
-- Regards,
Nick Ashton-Hart Director, At-Large ICANN PO Box 32160 London N4 2XY United Kingdom Main Tel: +44 (20) 8800-1011] USA Tel: +1 (202) 657-5460 Fax: +44 (20) 7681-3135 mobile: +44 (7774) 932798 email: nick.ashton-hart@icann.org Win IM: ashtonhart@hotmail.com / AIM/iSight: nashtonhart@mac.com / Skype: nashtonhart Online Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonhart
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Draft Operating Principles: http://www.icannwiki.org/NA_RALO_OP
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Draft Operating Principles: http://www.icannwiki.org/NA_RALO_OP
-- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/
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Wendy, One additional comment. Have a look at the content at the ALAC's discussion forum at http://icannalac.org/forum. It's almost all commercial advertising [nokia, samsung, panasonic, etc.] and pornography [Free blonde big boobs movies] . If ALAC members aren't willing to provide a spam free forum or to actively engage in discussions on their own Discussion Forum, then their really isn't much point to this endeavor. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/
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