[council] Registrars RAA Statement

[Yoav Keren <yoav@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

This is a statement that the registrars will be issuing in response to the 
draft RAA ICANN posted and related outstanding issues. Attached  are also 
several documents which highlight our positions.

Best regards,

Yoav



Yoav Keren
CEO
Domain The Net Technologies Ltd.
81 Sokolov st.         Tel: +972-3-7600500
Ramat Hasharon     Fax: +972-3-7600505
Israel 47238
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Statement from the Registrar Stakeholder Group

The Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG) would like to provide this statement 
regarding the current status of RAA negotiations and the update posted on the 
ICANN website on June 4, 2012.

The RrSG and its representatives on the Negotiating Team (NT) have been 
actively involved in discussions with ICANN staff and is pleased to see 
substantive progress reported to the community in advance of the upcoming ICANN 
meeting in Prague.

Among the issues that have been agreed to include improved registrar response 
and availability to law enforcement, registrar abuse point of contact, 
publication of registrar information, establishment of an ICANN accreditation 
for privacy/proxy service as well as many other important issues which have 
been identified both by law enforcement and the greater community.

As ICANN points out in the documents recently released, several issues remain 
outstanding including:

- Whois verification/validation
- Data retention
- Future RAA amendments process
- Registrar obligations to support certain technologies which today are optional
- Port 43 whois access for thick registries


The RrSG fully agrees that several of the open items require input and 
discussion from the broader community as they contemplate significant changes 
to the domain name ecosystem as it exists today, and will impact the expansion 
of the Internet to new users and new regions of the world. We believe the 
upcoming meeting in Prague will provide an excellent venue for initiating these 
discussions and the RrSG looks forward to participating in those conversations.

Attached to this statement (or provided shortly thereafter) is the RrSG's 
specific comments and/or proposed language to many of the issues which remain 
open at this time.

We would like to thank ICANN staff for their ongoing participation in this 
effort and the RrSG looks forward to continued discussions as we move toward 
completion of a new RAA.





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Attachment: Registrar NT Scorecard v3.pdf
Description: Registrar NT Scorecard v3.pdf

Attachment: RAA Critical Issues Analysis - Consensus Policy _2 PDF.PDF
Description: RAA Critical Issues Analysis - Consensus Policy _2 PDF.PDF

Attachment: RAA Critical Issues Analysis - DR and Whois _3_pdf.pdf
Description: RAA Critical Issues Analysis - DR and Whois _3_pdf.pdf

Attachment: Status of Topics that are the Subject of LEA Recommendations for RAA.PDF
Description: Status of Topics that are the Subject of LEA Recommendations for RAA.PDF

Attachment: RAA Summary Notes.pdf
Description: RAA Summary Notes.pdf