[APAC-Discuss] Beijing and Policy Discussion - and Verisign

[Holly Raiche]

Hi Fouad - and others

Actually, the more immediate issue for APRALO - and ALAC (and ICANN for that matter) - and maybe something to put upfront in the Multi stakeholder discussion -  is the letter from Verisign to ICANN that it will not cooperate with the Compliance audit of registries in relation to the .net registry. See  http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/kane-to-serad-et-al-08jan13-en

Arguably, since this is only about Verisign's agreement in relation to the .net registry, all is not lost since, arguably, the registries handling .net domain names for Verisign are covered by the RAA (as opposed to the ICANN-Verisign contract  on .net) so the Whois data held should be accurate as required under the RAA ( but then we have already drawn attention to the deficiencies in that contract - specifically clause 3.7.8) 

I haven't had time to go through the .net contract in detail, but I think we can be reasonably sure that Verisign lawyers have been through in great detail and probably are right.  So the big question is what Verisign's refusal to comply with the Compliance audit (although they do say they are happy to cooperate) means for Whois data accuracy.

Happy reading

Holly