[registrars] Draft Code of Conduct
Attached please find the proposed code of conduct that Richard Lindsay circulated to the Code of Conduct Task Force. Several people have asked to see a copy of it. Again, this is still in draft format. Richard Lindsay will let us know when a copy suitable for voting upon is available. Michael D. Palage -----Original Message----- From: owner-registrars-coc@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars-coc@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Richard Lindsay Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 9:52 PM To: Registrar COC; ICANN Liaison Subject: [registrars-coc] Version II draft Greetings all, I apologize for the lack of progress, I haven't been too aggressive in trying to keep the drafting process hopping. However, there is quite a big impetus to get at least a first version of some kind of a Code of Conduct by the ICANN meetings in Yokohama. Unfortunately this is just a week away, so if we are to make any progress, we will have to get to work quickly. I am forwarding a revised version of the Code of Conduct. This version was drafted with the assistance of input from many of the Registrars who attended the meeting 2 weeks ago in Washington DC. The document contains many of the same points of the original draft that I submitted, but it includes some wording with a clearer legal tone (legal council reviewed this document whereas my draft had no such support.) There are a few points that you will notice are not included. Specifically the provisions regarding Warehousing and Registrar mistakes are not included. This is due to the fact that many Registrars present at the meetings in DC indicated they would not be supportive of a Code of Conduct with those issues included, until there was much more discussion of the issues. Keep in mind this Code of Conduct has to be a consensus based document, so even if the entire CoC working group feels very strongly about a certain provision, if the Registrars as a whole do not support it, we will not get a working Code of Conduct in place. In my opinion, this Code of Conduct should be viewed as a staged process, similar to the Service Level Agreement (SLA). By no means should this document be considered a final version that will not be changed in the future. Indeed, I believe the items that were not included in this draft should be discussed, and identified in future updates to the Code of Conduct. Please read over this version carefully and compare this with the original version I sent out. I would like to submit this to the Registrars hopefully by the end of the week. If believe we should strive to have something approved at least by the completion of the ICANN meetings (if at all possible!) Best regards, Richard Registrar Code of Conduct (4).doc
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