Hi Lutz Thanks for doing this research - very interesting, and I had completely forgotten about this! It is an interesting commitment in the context of ccTLDs' independence of policy making. I share your surprise. Best, Emily 2011/3/14 Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>

I just read through the various MoU, Letter Exchanges and sponsoring agreements with ccTLDs. To my honest surprise, several of those "contracts" has a paragraph named "Conformity to ICANN Policies":

... the interoperability of the Delegated ccTLD with other parts of the DNS and Internet; operational capabilities and performance of the ccTLD operator; and the obtaining and maintenance of, and public access to, accurate and up-to-date contact information for domain name registrants;

Interestingly, the paragraph varies on the various documents: the stable part is up to the first semicolon, it appears in almost all documents. The second part is more or less a strongly recommend option.

Please point me to the slides for the various consulations. _______________________________________________ Rt4-whois mailing list Rt4-whois@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/rt4-whois