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Re: [registrars] Re: Ballot to determine whether ICANN Registrars favor or oppose Domain Tasting.
On 18-Jan-08, at 4:16 PM, Russ Goodwin wrote:
I don't feel there are technical grounds for addressing "tasting"
nor for eliminating the AGP, therefore I view any action by ICANN on
the matter (including initiation of a PDP) as an attempt to regulate
the market.
You've missed my point. ICANN doesn't initiate PDPs. We do. ICANN is
not "regulating" anything. ICANN is simply a framework in which the
community makes and enforces decisions (at least when its working well
anyways).
This is what you signed up for when you became accredited.
If the community doesn't believe that the "tasting" is a net positive
benefit to the DNS and registration system, then its perfectly
suitable for the community to change its mind about the rules that
were put in place in the first place. The AGP is a great example of
this. While it wasn't a policy in the first place, it was implemented
and institutionalized based on community feedback - we needed to be
able to correct mistakes made during the registration process at low
or no cost. The AGP is what came back. Some have taken this to mean
"unlimited correction" and implemented their "tasting" programs. Parts
of the community have taken the view that this is an inappropriate use
of the AGP and are now seeking to implement new policy to prevent it.
In many ways, this is far preferable to regulation. At least with
ICANN you might get a say in what the end result looks like.
Ross Rader
Director, Retail Services
t. 416.538.5492
c. 416.828.8783
http://www.domaindirect.com
"To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow."
- Erik Nupponen
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