[registrars] Fw: Registrar Constituency Progress on Policies Concerning Transfers of Sponsorship of Registrations

["Ken Stubbs" <kstubbs@digitel.net>]

Fellow registrars...

This is the "process issue"  i publicly expressed so much concern about at
the meeting in stockholm...

As Registrars, we absolutely NEED to be pro-active on this issue as opposed
to having something "mandated" on us.


regards

ken stubbs


----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Touton" <touton@icann.org>
To: "Erica Roberts" <erica.roberts@bigpond.com>; "Ken Stubbs"
<kstubbs@digitel.net>; "Paul M. Kane" <Paul.Kane@Uwhois.net>
Cc: "Stuart Lynn" <lynn@icann.org>; "Andrew McLaughlin" <ajm@icann.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 2:59 PM
Subject: Registrar Constituency Progress on Policies Concerning Transfers of
Sponsorship of Registrations


> To:  Erica Roberts
>      Ken Stubbs
>      Paul Kane
>
> On Monday, 16 July, Roger Cochetti, acting on behalf of NSI Registrar
> (in the process of being renamed as VeriSign Registrar), sent Stuart
> Lynn a message concerning the issue of transfers of the sponsorship of
> registrations between registrars.  The message, which is posted at
> <http://www.icann.org/correspondence/cochetti-to-lynn-16jul01.htm>, sets
> forth data VeriSign Registrar has gathered indicating that unauthorized
> transfers are occurring.  As an interim measure, VeriSign Registrar
> states that is is willing to enter into arrangements with other
> registrars who mutually promise to follow specified standards for
> authenticating the customer's desire to transfer.  It concludes by
> urging ICANN to develop customer safeguards concerning transfers and
> commits to work with ICANN and the registrar community in that effort.
>
> For several weeks the registrar constituency has been discussing the
> practices that should be followed in registrar transfers.  The
> discussion indicates that there are competing concerns to be addressed.
> On one hand, registrars have contractual relations with their customers
> obligating them to be sure that unauthorized actions respecting
> domain-name registrations do not occur without proper customer
> authorization.  On the other hand, a vibrant competitive environment
> requires that customers be able to accomplish a transfer to another
> registrar without procedures not necessary to ensure customer
> authorization.
>
> We would very much appreciate hearing from you, as the representatives
> of the registrar constituency, as to what efforts the registrar
> constituency has taken toward achieving a consensus solution to these
> issues and what progress it has achieved.  It would also be very helpful
> to hear your views on how ICANN should best move forward to address the
> registrar transfer issues.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Louis Touton