Re: [ga] working group to design a better RAA

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:12 a.m. 7/04/2007, kidsearch wrote:
> Sign me up too

Thanks for joining, Chris.
Bashar, George, Danny and any other articulate registrant, pIease consider 
coming on board  as well.

Perhaps the ICANN GNSO secretariat could give us an archived mailing 
list   registrants@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Please?


> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joop Teernstra" <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Hugh Dierker" <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>; "Bashar Al-Abdulhadi" 
> <bashar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 8:42 PM
> Subject: [ga] working group to design a better RAA
>
>
> > At 04:19 a.m. 5/04/2007, Hugh Dierker wrote:
> > > There is the RAA which is somewhat standardized by ICANN. It needs to be 
> > > brought up to date with this century.
> > >
> > > Then there is the registrant agreement side of the Registrar. Transfers 
> > > and drops are not very uniform and the policies in place do very little 
> > > for the consumer, be them B2B, Business to Individual or just plain for fun.
> > >
> > > It seems to me that the resulting registrant agreements and inextricably 
> > > entwined with the RAAs.
> > >
> > > Therefore I would suggest we put together a working group to make our 
> > > input on the RAAs known and heard.
> > >
> > > If volunteers are not forthcoming I will beg and cajole and threaten 
> > > people to head the wg. It is my understanding I have about 205 to chose from.
> >
> > I take this as a Motion from the Chair and I second it.
> >
> > Such a working group can do a great deal of good for registrants.
> >
> > Hopefully Sotiris will volunteer to chair it and a good number of typical 
> > registrants here will join.
> >
> > The agenda of the WG should be the drafting, from the ground up, of a 
> > registrant-focused agreement that registrars can elect to adopt in the 
> > name of genuine competition.
> >
> >
> > -joop-