[council] retabling agenda item 3 from the 27 July pNC telecon

["Shapiro, Ted" <Ted_Shapiro@mpaa.org>]

Dear pNC,

Further to the last pNC telecon, during which it was decided that, in
response to a request by the registrars that this issue be further
postponed,  a "full" report be submitted by 6 August. However, as I have not
received any further input from the registrars, I am retabling the report
and draft protocol that I submitted to the pNC and was posted on the DNSO
site before the last pNC telecon on 27 July. I would ask that pNC members go
back to their constituencies with the report and draft protocol and consult
them in order to be ready to vote on this issue in Santiago. 

Although I have not received any detailed feedback from the registrars on
this isse, I note that Richard Lindsay "fully support[s] the intent" of this
proposal (see email to the pNC of 27 July 1999). Ken Stubbs has also noted
that "the same desired objective  can be easily be achieved, without
restricting the portability of names, by simply providing that once a
dispute policy is invoked any transferee registrar will abide by the result
of that invocation?" (see email to the pNC of 27 July 1999).

I have not received any feedback on Ken's suggestion, but I have had several
requests from members of my constituency that I continue to raise this issue
with the pNC and that I retable the report and draft protocol. We still
believe that this is vital issue. WGA may have finished its report, but a
UDRP is still far from being a reality. As the number of registrars goes
from 5 to 57, the potential for abuse grows.  

Best regards,
Ted