RE: [registrars] Call for action - GNSO motion on Domain Tasting

["Bhavin Turakhia" <bhavin.t@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The Board has not "approved' a 20 cent fee, the Board has 
> proposed this
> as part of the budget process - which is subject to comment, and won't
> be finalised until presumably June 08.   So the registrars 
> constituency
> is free to propose alternative models, and the GNSO is free 
> to recommend
> policy related to this area.

Thanks for the clarification bruce. My bad. I did not mean to state that
various constituencies should not have the option to propose alternatives.
And I am all for the attempt of folks coming up with alternatives. My
concern is that it is logical to expect that the solution proposed should
have zero to minimal negative impact. The GNSO proposal seems to be a
knee-jerk reaction and does not take into account the feedback of those
directly impacted - registrants and registrars - probably not because they
don't want to - but because there seems to be silence from our side this
second time on the list. I may again be wrong about this.

My reason for raising this on the registrars constituency mailing list was
to try and understand the following 2 items -

(1) are we as a constituency doing everything we can to provide clear
feedback that the proposed penalty (of 6+ dollars) would impact registrars /
business models and registrants.

(2) if the GNSO motion does go through - do we have any next steps to try
and get this message across to the board, since the attendance from the
board in the RC meeting in india was limited, and I think it would help to
hear this directly from the registrars