[council] ICANN to Convene Consultations on Registry/Registrar Report

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Please note:
ICANN to Convene Consultations on Registry/Registrar Report

Updated to include reference to the availability of remote participation

9 December 2008

On 24 October 2008, ICANN posted the CRA International report titled, 
"Revisiting Vertical Separation of Registries and Registrars" [PDF, 493K]. This 
paper has generated significant discussion in the community as it discusses the 
potential easing of the requirement for the separation of gTLD registries and 
registrars.

To advance community discussions on this issue, ICANN will be convening two 
open meetings with the first scheduled in Washington, DC on Thursday, 11 
December from 2-5pm (EST) / 19:00-22:00 (UTC), and the second in Marina del 
Rey, CA on Friday, 19 December from 10am-1pm (PST) / 18:00-21:00 (UTC). The 
purpose of the consultations are to explore CRAI's recommendations regarding 
the relationship between registries and registrars as well as other potential 
models that would be acceptable to a consensus of the Internet community.

If you plan to participate in these meetings, please RSVP to 
crai-report-consultation@xxxxxxxxx and further information will be emailed to 
you. Remote participation for the meetings is available and dial-in information 
will be provided to you upon receipt of your RSVP.

Comments on the CRAI report are welcome via email to crai-report@xxxxxxxxx 
through 15 December 2008. An archive of all comments received will be publicly 
posted at http://forum.icann.org/lists/crai-report/.

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://gnso.icann.org