Summary and analysis of public comments for:
Neustar Amendment to Implement Registry Service
[registryservice].
Opened: 08 Jun 07
Closed: 29 Jun 07
Summary
Two comments were received. One was spam; one concerned a
different matter to the one under discussion. The NeuStar comment period used
the open registryservice at icann.org forum, which contained three previous
comments for registry service applications from Telnic and PIR. As no
significant objections were received, the amendment was executed following the
meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors in
Analysis
No relevant comments were received. Comments using the same
forum space for previous proposed registry services would appear to indicate
that the comment space is visible, although the degree of visibility is
uncertain. The comment period was announced on the ICANN homepage on 8 June
2007 (http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-08jun07.htm)
and added to the Registry Services RSS feed.
The value of having a single comment space for registry
services (rather than a separate space for each proposed service) may be worth
reviewing. This was originally added at the request of the Registrars Constituency
in October 2006. However, when more than one registry service may be under
discussion at a given time, there are risks of confusion. This occurred during
the comment period for the NeuStar Amendment to implement the bulk transfer
after partial portfolio acquisition service, as a public comment period was
also running on Telnic’s Whois proposal (# 2007004). Staff resolved this
by creating a separate public comment forum for the extended comment period on
Telnic’s proposal.
Patrick L. Jones
Registry Liaison Manager
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Tel: +1 310 301 3861
Fax: +1 310 823 8649