RE: [registrars] Definition of Registry Services in recent gtld agreements and scope of price caps

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Tom,

I interpret (a) (i) and (ii) to mean:

Operations of the registry that are critical for registration, zonefile
etc AND that exist at the time of the new .net agreement.

If a future operation is established for e.g provision of zonefiles,
then it could be subject to a different charge.   E.g Verisign might
make daily zonefiles for free, but 5 minute zonefile updates may be
provided at a fee to be determined by Verisign.

Regards,
Bruce




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Keller [mailto:tom@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, 1 August 2005 6:27 PM
> To: Bruce Tonkin
> Cc: Registrars Constituency
> Subject: Re: [registrars] Definition of Registry Services in 
> recent gtld agreements and scope of price caps
> 
> It seems that my english is failing me. What exactly does
> 
> (ii) provided by the Registry Operator for the .net registry as of the
>      Effective Date, as the case may be;
> 
> mean?
> 
> tom
> 
>      
> Am 01.08.2005 schrieb Bruce Tonkin:
> > 
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > Registry Services are defined in recent agreements as:
> > 
> > Taken from, Article III COVENANTS, Section 3.1 (d) Registry 
> > Operations,
> > (iii) of the .net agreement:
> > 
> > Registry Services. Registry Services are, for purposes of this 
> > Agreement, defined as the following:
> > 
> > (a) those services that are both
> > 
> >  (i) operations of the registry critical to the following tasks: 
> > - the receipt of data from registrars concerning registrations of 
> > domain names and name servers;
> > - provision to registrars of status information relating to 
> the zone 
> > servers for the TLD;
> > - dissemination of TLD zone files;
> > - operation of the registry zone servers;
> > - and dissemination of contact and other information 
> concerning domain 
> > name server registrations in the TLD as required by this Agreement;
> > 
> > and
> > 
> >  (ii) provided by the Registry Operator for the .net registry as of 
> > the Effective Date, as the case may be;
> > 
> > (b) other products or services that the Registry Operator 
> is required 
> > to provide because of the establishment of a Consensus Policy (as 
> > defined in Section 3.1(b) above);
> > 
> > (c) any other products or services that only a registry operator is 
> > capable of providing, by reason of its designation as the registry 
> > operator;
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > (d) material changes to any Registry Service within the 
> scope of (a),
> > (b) or (c)
> > above. Only Registry Services defined in (a) and (b) above 
> are subject 
> > to the maximum price provisions of Section 7.3, below. "
> > 
> > 
> > Note that price caps only apply to the services in 
> categories (a) and
> > (b) above.  Thus price caps would not apply to any new 
> services proposed
> > by a registry operator.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Bruce
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Gruss,
> 
> tom
> 
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