[dow3tf] Registrar Constituency Input re: Best Practices

["Brian Darville" <BDARVILLE@xxxxxxxxx>]

At the same time, I circulated the two drafts of the best practices document, which should also be discussed on tomorrow's call.

>>> "Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@xxxxxxxxxx> 05/18/04 09:03AM >>>
On May 4 I submitted substantial comments regarding the then current 
draft of the best practices 
(http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/dow3tf/msg00167.html). It 
is now May 17 and I have not heard nor seen any discussion of this 
submission or any comments on it from any other member of this task 
force. For the record, I reiterate them here and request that we discuss 
them during our regularly scheduled call tomorrow.

Section 1 - This clause forces substantial and inappropriate liability 
on registrars. Inclusion of the language included in the redline I 
submitted on May 4 is not acceptable to the Registrar Constituency. 
Striking this language will be key if the Task Force wishes to have 
Registrar Constituency's support of their recommendations.

Section 2 - These recommendations are wholly out of scope for both this 
task force and the GNSO.

Section 3 - This recommendation inappropriately limits the scope of 
consideration by the GNSO. This is unlikely to supported by the GNSO 
Council and should be replaced by the original text that was proposed by 
the Registrar Constituency.

Section 4 - Specific recommendations regarding the inclusion of various 
whois data elements is out of scope for this task force. For the third 
time I reiterate my objection to their inclusion in this document.

Section 5 - See my comments on Section 1.

Section 6 - Again this requirement is out of scope for the GNSO and if 
implemented with negatively impact competition by limiting the manner by 
which registrars currently offer these services on a free market basis.

Section 7 - This section is redundant and simply restates the 
requirements of the policy development process.

I am at somewhat of a loss as to how we should proceed with this. No 
commentary on these very important issues over the past two weeks 
indicates to me that either a) this task force is dealing with a 
foregone conclusion that would be better dealt with at a council level 
or b) we no longer have the committment of the task force membership 
required to fulfill our obligations to the Council. I sincerely hope 
that neither is the case. Making solid progress on these points during 
tomorrow's call would definitely put me in a more positive frame of mind 
regarding our chance of success as a Task Force.
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                        -rwr








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