RE: [registrars] Statement XXX agreement

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Melbourne IT agrees. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Keller
> Sent: Friday, 9 March 2007 2:14 AM
> To: registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [registrars] Statement XXX agreement
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I drafted a statement in regard to the XXX agreement we can use
> in response to the public comment period which ends tomorrow.
> 
> As I'm not sure if we can post this as an offical 
> constituency statement
> I would suggest that people that are interested in supporting the
> statement just sign on to it and that I will post it as an individual 
> comment tomorrow evening European time.
> 
> Suggestions to the wording are welcomed ;)
> 
> Best,
> 
> tom
> 
> --
> 
> Herby we would like to raise our concerns in respect to a 
> paragraph of the
> Proposed ICM Registry Agreement for .XXX Appendix S, Part 6, 
> Public Whois 
> Specification which reads as follows:
> 
> Registrars will be required to participate in the operation 
> of a cross-registry
> WHOIS database, which will provide searching capabilities and 
> access to all 
> information concerning domain name registrations regardless 
> of which TLD the
> domain name is registered in or which registrar processed the 
> domain name 
> application.
> 
> The requirement resulting out of this paragraph is out of 
> scope for this
> agreement as it stands in no direct relation to the operations of the 
> XXX registry.
> 
> It is our believe that substantial new and generic 
> obligations to registrars 
> should in any case be subject to the consensus policy process 
> as mandated by the
> Registrar Accreditation Agreement 
> (http://www.icann.org/registrars/ra-agreement-17may01.htm) 
> which is designed to implement such new policies in a open 
> and transparent way.
> 
> As the paragraph in question establishes a new and generic 
> obligation for registrars
> we have to object to the inclusion of this paragraph in the 
> final verion of the
> XXX Registry Agreement.
> 
> Signatories
> ...
> --
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas Keller
> 
> Domain Services
> 1&1 Internet AG
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> 
> Amtsgericht Montabaur HRB 6484
> 
> Vorstand: Henning Ahlert, Hans-Henning Doerr, Ralph 
> Dommermuth, Matthias Ehrlich
> Andreas Gauger, Matthias Greve, Robert Hoffmann, Achim Weiss
> Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Michael Scheeren
> 
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