Re: [ga] ICANN Exploring Certification of Backend Registry Operators

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glen and all,

  Are comments, sugestions, and other thoughts regarding
gTLD's in accordance with this announcment to be sent
to the current ICANN/GNSO gTLD email address, or
is there to be yet another NEW gTLD Email address for
such?

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"GNSO.SECRETARIAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

> [To: council[at]gnso.icann.org; liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org]
> [To: ga[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org]
> [To: regional-liaisons[at]icann.org]
>
> http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-31jan08.htm
> ICANN Exploring Certification of Backend Registry Operators
>
> 31 January 2008
>
> * * In advance of the ICANN meeting in New Delhi, India, this
> announcement is to inform the community that ICANN is exploring a
> potential initiative for the certification of backend registry operators
> for new gTLDs. ICANN has identified registry operator certification as
> an area that may improve the application process for new gTLDs and
> improve security and stability by creating a pool of available and
> pre-qualified registry operators in the event of registry failure.
>
> ICANN is an internationally organized non-profit public benefit
> organization that administers certain features of the Internet's unique
> identifiers. As a private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to
> preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting
> competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet
> communities; and to developing policy appropriate to its mission through
> bottom-up, consensus-based processes. A general description of ICANN is
> available at http://icann.org/tr/english.html
> <http://www.icann.org/tr/english.html>.
>
> *Background*
>
> The idea of creating a certified registry operations provider program is
> not new. In March 2003, ICANN released criteria for stable registry
> operation to be used in the selection of new sponsored TLDs:
> http://www.icann.org/riodejaneiro/stld-rfp-topic.htm#D1.
>
> Since the March 2003 ICANN meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a wide
> range of community members (registrars, ccTLD registry operators,
> Non-Commercial Constituency members, among others) have encouraged ICANN
> to move forward with the creation of an Accredited Registry Services
> Provider program (or similar program). As an example, the 15 March 2006
> GNSO Issues Report on Technical Criteria for new gTLDs referenced the
> idea of creating an accredited registry operator's system (see
> http://gnso.icann.org/issues/new-gtlds/tech-criteria-15mar06.htm). The
> topic was also raised in the GNSO Public Forum in Lisbon, Portugal in
> March 2007 and during the November 2007 ICANN meeting in Los Angeles,
> California.
>
> Additional research and discussion on this potential initiative is
> anticipated as staff moves toward the introduction of new gTLDs and
> implementation of the gTLD registry failover plan in the near future.
> Further information will be provided on the ICANN website.
> --
> Glen de Saint Géry
> GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
> gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
> http://gnso.icann.org