All,
I want to thank Jothan for putting this
together it is a very good summary of the proceedings and would like to second
his request for participation. As a fellow RC representative in this Working
Group, I cannot underestimate the importance of fellow Registrars input into
this survey. The other constituencies have been very effective in mobilizing
their efforts and responding to the survey and we need to have our voices
heard.
Thanks
Jeff
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owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Jothan Frakes
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007
1:08 PM
To: registrars@gnso.icann.org
Subject: [registrars] Reminder:
9/15 Deadline for Domain Tasting Working Group RFI (Request for Information)
submissions
My Fellow Registrars-
The Domain Tasting Working
Group has a Request for Information (RFI) deadline to respond by September 15,
2007.
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-10aug07.htm
is the link to the main posting at the ICANN website, and https://www.bigpulse.com/872i is the
survey.
If you have not taken the
opportunity to respond on behalf of your registrar position on the issue,
please do. Also, if you are managing intellectual property as well, it
would be wise to capture that perspective in the separate RFI that the
intellectual property constituency has prepared.
As the working group starts
to sunset its activities and present its findings to the GNSO for their
determination on proceeding to a policy development process, it would be very
beneficial to the registrars to have voiced their views on the topic, but also
to have identified places where alterations to status quo might have an impact
to our businesses.
A change to the AGP
(actually an elimination of it entirely is on the table is leading
statistically in the current survey results) is one of the proposals being
discussed. My concern (and IMHO it should be the concern of many of us)
is that an elimination of AGP could be potentially disruptive as an unforeseen
consequence in the absence of the awareness of its impact.
I have been polling with
individual registrars on specific use of AGP that they're doing as a sort of
straw poll, and I've not had a lot of success directly by contacting the
registrars individually that are participants in the working group with regard
to responses to it.
Unfortunately, the responses
are underwhelming within the constituency. I am wondering if there is a full
understanding within the group as to what those impacts are or might be, or as
I more likely suspect, you’re all super focused on your day jobs.
Please take some time to
what would be the business impact to your registrar if the Add Grace Period was
entirely eliminated.
The intent is to elevate the
awareness of any impacts to the Domain Tasting Working Group so that these
impacts, so that these can be taken into consideration should the process move
to PDP, so that that process would be able to consider these business impacts.
If there's something
proprietary that you'd like not to disclose, but the change might impact your
operations in some way, please just state the impact without detail and just
say "impact to a proprietary service".
As some examples, I've given
some results that I have heard as feedback from registrars individually without
naming names that one could draw from. If you don't have the time to
specify detail, at least please identify the high level impact.
Examples:
* Business Impact due to
business line; The loss of the AGP would impact a percentage of my business,
the nature of which is proprietary and we are not willing to share, but we'd
oppose the elimination AGP in favor of perhaps a restocking fee.
* Business impact:
Bulk registration customers who participate in 'tasting' in responsible ways
(wrt respecting intellectual property) would no longer be able to register
domain names.
* Costs from technical
implementation: The implementation of the changes to the business logic
that an elimination of AGP is going to result in costs in my technology group
or with technology consultants to program them.
* Platform Monitoring
impact: An elimination of the AGP would degrade the active security and
stability of my registrar provisioning system. Our platform is designed
to run a suite of automated tests of the EPP provisioning system by adding a
domain, adding name servers, adding hosts, confirming these settings resolve in
DNS, change name servers, delete hostnames, and then delete the domain name, at
static intervals in order to ensure uptime.
Please don't be limited to
these as responses, and if one of these examples matches your circumstance,
feel free to use those but make them appropriate to the circumstances for the
registrar you would be responding for. They are intended only as
examples.
The working group is keen to
hear what the responses are so that these can be factored in to the outcomes.
The deadline that I have for
collapsing these into a product for the working group is September 15th, I'd
request that folks please respond to me before then so that I can incorporate
any comments or impacts surrounding the AGP.
-Jothan
Jothan Frakes
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http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-10aug07.htm
Request for Information on
Domain Tasting 10 August 2007
In view of the increase in
domain tasting (definitions below), the GNSO Council recently considered an
Issues Report on Domain Tasting and resolved to form an ad hoc group for
further fact-finding on the effects of this practice. The ad hoc group has
prepared these questions to assist in gathering facts and opinions, while
inviting both qualitative and quantitative input. The group would especially
appreciate statistical and other empirical evidence to support your responses,
or references to potential sources of information.
To be considered by the
group, information should be submitted no later than 15 September 2007 to
rfi-domaintasting@xxxxxxxxxx
Comments may be viewed at
http://forum.icann.org/lists/rfi-domaintasting/.
For further information, please see the FAQ annex [PDF, 25K].
http://www.gnso.icann.org/issues/domain-tasting/faqs-domain-tasting-10aug07.pdf
The easiest method of
providing your answers and comments, and information related to this RFI, is
via the electronic survey available at this link: https://www.bigpulse.com/872i.
Responses made to the
survey, updated in real time, are available here.
http://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=4Rkitd2chD5rD7eyJHJi
Thank you.
Kind regards
Glen
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