[ga] Re: [At-Large] [ALAC-Announce] Registrants 'Bill of Rights andResponsibilities' - Call for Volunteers

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

Adam and all,

  To my knowledge, ICANN has never implimented any form
of a policy that is "Consensus" based, yet questionably declaired
Consensus policies have been hoist upon stakeholders by
the ICANN staff and Bod sense 1999.  Of course ICANN
has claimed that "Rough Consensus" was achieved adaquately
enough to enshrine whatever policy ICANN believed and believes
was sufficient.  As with RegistryFly amongst a host of other errors
in such judgment have become evident even to ICANN, seemingly
the last to admit an error in their collective and edicted judgment, it
remains pointedly clear that such judgment was and remains significantly
in error.  Our members see now, and have seen sense 1999 that
such is a result of improper consultation AND a lack of stakeholders
that choose to participate restricted or unable to VOTE on such
proposed policies.

Adam Peake wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Like to respond to this comment Nick sent to the announce list.  Hope
> relevant, registrar agreements and policies are not really my great
> passion. However:
>
> >Dear Community:
> >
> >As you may be aware, the ALAC sent an advisory to the Board of
> >Directors of ICANN in August 2008 related to At-Large community
> >views on amendments to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement ("RAA")
> >(http://www.atlarge.icann.org/en/correspondence/community-views-raa-negotiation.htm
> >)
> >
> >A number of the proposals in the Advisory related to the protection
> >of registrants, including:
> >
> >"Add a clause in the RAA to require registrars to show a
> >standardized description of registrant rights, to be provided by
> >ICANN in different languages, as an appendix to the contract at the
> >time of registration, and also to make it available in the
> >registrant's domain management interface whenever available. Such
> >obligation should also be passed onto resellers. "
> >
> >In the public consultation on a package of proposed draft amendments
> >to the RAA begun in June 2008 (see
> >http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-18jun08-en.htm),
> >this proposal can be found as a redline addition to the RAA text:
> >
> >"In the event that ICANN gives reasonable notice to Registrar that
> >ICANN has published a webpage that identifies available registrant
> >rights and responsibilities, and the content of such webpage is
> >developed in consultation with registrars, Registrar shall provide a
> >link to the webpage on any website it may operate for domain name
> >registration or renewal clearly displayed to its Registered Name
> >Holders at least as clearly as its links to policies or
> >notifications required to be displayed under ICANN Consensus
> >Policies."
>
> How clearly do registrars display ICANN consensus policies, is there
> some requirement/guideline?  If consensus policies aren't prominently
> displayed then this requirement to display the description of
> registrant rights equally (un)clearly may not be that helpful.
>
> Long ago I was a member of the working group long ago on deletes, and
> that consensus policy includes this language "Additionally, in order
> to provide registrants with a complete understanding of registrars'
> deletion and renewal policies, the task force recommends that
> registrars inform registrants of those policies at the time of
> registration, and maintains them in a conspicuous place on their
> website."  I struggle to find those policies on most registrar sites.
>
> What I'm trying to say is I think the instruction to registrars needs
> to be much more direct, along the lines of "you will display this
> policy/guideline prominently and ICANN will monitor."  "Prominently"
> probably needs defining (a menu item for ICANN Policy on every
> registrar top page?)
>
> Adam
>
> >The ALAC Coordinator of the Registrant / Registrar Relations Working
> >group of At-Large has asked that work begin, in consultation with
> >the registrar community, on producing such a document. Volunteers
> >from the At-Large community who wish to work on this project are
> >asked to subscribe to the RRA-WG list at:
> >http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/raa-wg_atlarge-lists.icann.org
> >and send an email introducing yourself to that list.
> >
> >The RRA Working Group URL is:
> >https://st.icann.org/raa-policy/index.cgi?at_large_registrar_registrant_relations_working_group
> >and you will find a new set of pages dedicated to this initiative
> >along with reference information.
> >
> >--
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Nick Ashton-Hart
> >Director for At-Large
> >Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
> >Main Tel: +33 (450) 40 46 88
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