[ga] Request for a WLS working group

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

Thomas,

The ICANN Board has requested that the Names Council coordinate within the 
DNSO a comprehensive review of issues concerning the deletion of domain names 
and possible solutions for those issues and to submit to the Board, no later 
than 10 June 2002, a status report on that review, with the status report to 
include any recommendations (with supporting materials) concerning VeriSign's 
request to modify the .com and .net agreements to allow it to provide a 
wait-listing service, for a fee, as part of its operation of the .com and 
.net registries.

Could you perhaps raise this request within the AOB portion of tomorrow's NC 
conference call?  To my knowledge, the Transfers TF has not yet been tasked 
with this mission, and has not undertaken any discussion of WLS (even though 
the Board has indicated that <<the Transfers Task Force within the DNSO has 
undertaken a review of issues raised by deletion practices (including the WLS 
proposal) in the context of its analysis of transfers, and is scheduled to 
submit its final report for public comment in May, so that the Names Council 
can provide a final report to the Board in June).>>

I don't believe that the Transfers TF is on schedule to release a final 
report in May, nor that its occasional participants can handle both the 
current transfers project and a new project within the requested time frame.  
This would be a good time to create an open working group (remember those?) 
to provide a comprehensive review and discussion.  The last major open 
working group (Review) was able to create a comprehensive report within three 
weeks (they commenced on Dec. 23 and had a report ready on schedule by 
January 15).  As no task force thus far has been able to accomplish their 
workload in a timely fashion, this would be a good time to return to the use 
of the Working Group so that we can properly honor this request by the Board.



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