[registrars] deletes/transfers Task Force/vote of excom

[Timothy Denton <tmdenton@magma.ca>]

Greetings all:
  First, the proposed vote on the jurisdiction of the transfers Task Force may or may not 
be in order, but our President has recused himself, supposedly, from any action on 
deletes, as he is a director of SnapNames. He is conflicted and should not vote. Indeed, 
it is questionable whether Mike should take any action on this issue. The interests of 
SnapNames are so clearly different from many of the registrars on this question that he 
should stay away from it. The constituency remains divided.

Second, the authority of the Transfers TF to deal with deletes was explicitly confirmed 
last week by Philip Shepherd, and follows a formal decision to that effect. The Board of 
ICANN handed the issue of deletions and transfers to the Names Council and the Names 
Council assigned it to the Transfers TF. (http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-
transfer/Arc00/msg00442.html )
Jeff Neuman is in error on this point.

Third, Ross has spent several months creating the conditions for the introduction of WLS, 
conditions that safeguard the interests of registrars. Since it was viewed by the TF that 
the Board of ICANN might approve the WLS proposal, it is in the best interest of 
registrars to ensure that appropriate safeguards are emplaced. Requesting that the 
implementation of the WLS was conditional upon the development of the Transfers TF 
completing its work regarding deletes was one of these. Approving this motion in light of 
the agreement that Registrars have achieved with other constituencies on these points is 
essentially a vote of non-confidence in our TF rep. Practically speaking pulling him off 
this task would waste months of effort, and jeopardize real progress in preserving the 
interests of registrars.

Fourth, we need to ask ourselves which course of action, on any issue, is in the best 
interest of our customers. A pattern of cooperation with the registry constituency may be 
seen to be emerging which, in my view, needs to be tempered with a realization that 
registrars stand or fall on how they treat their consumers - registrants. I think that if 
we kept this criterion foremost in our consideration of tactics within the councils of 
ICANN, we would not go wrong.

Fifth, it is clear that this question should be thoroughly vetted in our conversation on 
Monday at 5pm. It is too important for email.

Below is a copy of Shepherd’s clarification of the jurisdiction delegated to it from the 
Names Council to the Transfers TF.

·	To: <nc-transfer@dnso.org> 
·	Subject: [nc-transfer] Transfers task force and the NC expectations 
·	From: "Philip Sheppard" <philip.sheppard@aim.be> 
·	Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:05:01 +0200 
·	Organization: AIM 
·	Sender: owner-nc-transfer@dnso.org 
 
Transfers TF,
For the record allow me to remind you what the Names Council has asked of the Transfers 
Task Force.
 
1. Transfers
11 October 201 The NC resolved to establish a Transfers TF.
 
2. Deletes
The NC meeting of 29 May confirmed the referral of the ICANN board request on WLS to the 
Transfers TF and in addition adopted the following outline for the broader issues raised:
"- Deletion issue,
- Possible solutions 
- Verisign Wait Listing Service proposal
The report will comment on the:
- the status of deletions, 
- possible steps for ICANN to take on the redemption policy
- options to ameliorate harm done to Registrants
- ways of lessening the load on Registries
- the Wait Listing Service proposal from Verisign."
 
By this action the NC has assumed that the Transfers TF would produce recommendations to 
the NC on the relevant policy issues surrounding transfers, deletes, WLS, redemption 
grace period. The NC has not established any other body to do this work.
 
It was left to the TF to prioritise the issues and its order of work. If that means 
constituencies choose to change their reps to bring expertise as the subject matter of 
the TF changes, that is acceptable, prudent and efficient. 
 
 
Philip Sheppard
NC Chair





On Aug 23, Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au> wrote:

> If we do that - it would be worthwhile having Ross Rader join us for that
> discussion.
> 
> I tend to agree with Michael, but would like to hear Ross's read of the
> situation as well.
> 
> There are developments occuring within Names Council and also with ICANN
> policy processes at the same time.
> 
> I would prefer that we get deletes into a fresh policy track and follow the
> new recommended process.
> 
> Regards,
> Bruce
> 

> > To the Names Council:
> >
> > This morning the ICANN Board met to consider VeriSign's 21 March 2002
> > request for certain amendments to the .com and .net registry services to
> > permit the offering of a Wait Listing Service for a fee.  As you are
> > aware, in response to the Board's earlier request the DNSO gave advice
> > on various aspects of the VeriSign request.
> >
> > At this morning's meeting, the ICANN Board authorized the ICANN
> > President and General Counsel to conduct negotiations with VeriSign
> > toward appropriate revisions to the .com and .net registry agreements to
> > provide for the offering of a wait-listing service as proposed by
> > VeriSign, with six additional conditions.  As you will note from the
> > resolution, the Board drew heavily from the advice developed by the task
> > force's efforts, which it found to be very helpful in establishing the
> > conditions.  The Board is grateful to the Names Council and the task
> > force for coordinating this work.
> >
> > The resolution adopted is posted at
> >
> <<a href='http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-
23aug02.htm#VeriSignWLSProposal>'>http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-
23aug02.htm#VeriSignWLSProposal></a>
> >
> > I'd like to add my personal thanks to those of the Board for the hard
> > work and constructive advice that the Names Council, task force, and
> > DNSO participants gave on this issue.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Louis Touton
> >
> >
> 
> Timothy Denton, BA BCL
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