[registrars] Fw: [ga] GA summary 2002-04

["Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>]

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From: "Thomas Roessler" <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
To: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 4:57 AM
Subject: [ga] GA summary 2002-04


> This summary covers the DNSO GA mailing list's discussions during 
> the 4th week of 2002.  List archives are available online at 
> <http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc09/maillist.html>.  Please 
> feel free to forward this summary as you believe to be appropriate. 
> 
> 
> Votes
> 
> No formal votes are going on.  However, signatures are being 
> collected for (and against) a possible GA minority position to the 
> .org task force's report.  See below for details.
> 
> 
>    Task Force News
> 
> In a private message sent last Tuesday, the former chair of the GA, 
> Danny Younger, indicated that he would not continue to participate 
> in any task forces where he was representing the GA in his property 
> as the GA chair.
> 
> As a consequence of that, Alexander Svensson will represent the GA 
> on the IDN task force (in his capacity as the GA's alternative 
> chair), and Thomas Roessler will represent the GA on the WHOIS task 
> force (in his capacity as the GA's chair).  For the whois task 
> force, Abel Wisman and Kristy McKee have offered their valuable 
> help (this task force has to wade through a lot of questionnaires). 
> Thomas and Kristy both participated in a WHOIS task force telephone 
> conference held on January 28.
> 
> 
> 
> Topics
> 
> 
> (i) WLS and deleted domain handling.  This topic lost a lot of
> momentum last week.  The most notable posting on this came from Ron 
> Wiener of Snapnames, who posted a "speculator-specific pricing 
> analysis" of the WLS proposal.  According to this paper's 
> conclusion, "the evidence shows that, like all rational actors, 
> speculators do pay the market rate for secondary domain names, for 
> subscriptions to the WLS-like SnapBack service, and for preferential 
> access to registrars' connections - on average, about $40-$80.  The 
> WLS will have little impact on the price speculators pay". 
> <http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc09/msg00718.html>
> 
> Abel Wisman has volunteered to set up and lead a drafting group to 
> try to formulate a GA consensus position on this topic. 
> <http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc09/msg00766.html>
> 
> 
> (ii) dot-org.  The dot-org task force's report has been accepted by 
> the names council, and a public comment period starting January 18, 
> and ending on February 1, was announced.  Comments are to be sent to 
> <comments-dotorg@dnso.org>.  Also, minority views on the report are 
> invited from DNSO constituencies during the same period.  Comments 
> will be forwarded to the ICANN board along with the report. 
> <http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc09/msg00761.html>
> 
> Bret Fausett asked whether this is the last opportunity to comment 
> on the report before the ICANN board decides on dot-org, replacing 
> the normal ICANN-wide comment period, or whether it augments that 
> opportunity for comment.
> <http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc09/msg00763.html>
> 
> Marc Schneiders, who represented the GA on the dot-org task force, 
> posted a slightly revised version of his supplementary report, which 
> emphasizes that the task force's decision of making .org 
> unrestricted for new and old registrants alike is supported.  There 
> were no follow-ups to this message. 
> <http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc09/msg00724.html>
> 
> Based on this, Alexander Svensson produced a proposal for GA 
> members' comments on dot-org, which can be signed until Friday, 
> 15:00 CET.  Please send statements of support (or opposition) to 
> Thomas. <http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc09/msg00765.html>
> 
> 
> (iii) The GA representative on the transfer task force, Dan 
> Steinberg, sent out a call for input (and, if needed, participation) 
> for a telephone conference with Louis Touton.  The teleconference 
> will deal with the problem of "apparent authority": Who has 
> "apparent authority" to bind a registrant when registrant's domain 
> is to be transferred?  Questions and wishes for participation were 
> to be submitted until midnight Eastern time, Sunday, January 27th. 
> The actual telephone conference will happen on Friday, February 1, 
> noon EST.
> 
> <http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc09/msg00751.html>, 
> <http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc09/msg00756.html>.
> 
> 
> (iv) Chuck Gomes sent in a thoughtful article on working groups vs. 
> task forces as tools in the DNSO consensus process.  Recommended 
> reading.  <http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc09/msg00713.html>
> 
> 
> (v) Andy Duff (of new.net) pointed to some Business Constituency 
> charter revisions.
> <http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc09/msg00714.html>
> 
> 
> (vi) NC chair period of office.  In a posting to the GA and others, 
> the Jeff Neuman (acting on behalf of the gTLD constituency) 
> expressed concern on the "recent suggestion that the NC rules of 
> procedure should be amended to (a) extend the six-month period that 
> each NC chair is in office, and (b) allow the chair in office to 
> continue to serve until a successor is appointed".  The gTLD 
> constituency demands that "the Names Council should not proceed at 
> this time on this expeditious time frame.  [...] The current election 
> should and must proceed, regardless of the action the NC decides to 
> take in connection with th emotion." Jeff also argues, it seems, 
> that any new rules should not be applied to the NC chair who is 
> currently being elected.
> <http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc09/msg00044.html>,
> <http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc09/msg00058.html>,
> <http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc09/msg00767.html>.
> 
> 
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