[At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Latest RAA amendment

[Adam Peake]

>I don't want to question anyone's motives, but I do agree 
>specifically with Danny -- this proposed amendment needs to go 
>further in order to be effective. See Consumer Reports WebWatch's 
>guidelines 
>(http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/consumer-reports-webwatch-guidelines.cfm) 
>for a more detailed variation (guideline one is pasted below), and 
>note more than 300 companies, from Hewlett-Packard to ING to CNN to 
>Earthlink have agreed to abide by these guidelines:


Alan,

It seems amendments are still being made.  Could you ask staff and 
GNSO if they will accept the Consumer Reports standard Beau's 
proposing:

>1. Identity:
>Web sites should clearly disclose the physical location where they 
>are produced, including an address, a telephone number or e-mail 
>address.
>Sites should clearly disclose their ownership, private or public, 
>naming their parent company.
>Sites should clearly disclose their purpose and mission.

Adam





>As someone who has investigated a number of mail-drop scam 
>businesses, going the extra mile for physical location where the 
>site is produced is necessary.
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>[na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Danny 
>Younger [dannyyounger at yahoo.com]
>Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 5:18 PM
>To: At-Large Worldwide
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>Subject: [NA-Discuss] Latest RAA amendment
>
>ICANN Staff is now throwing out last-minute sops in order to get the 
>GNSO community to approve the RAA amendments as a package.  The 
>latest amendment added to the package is this:
>
>3.16 Registrar shall provide on its web site its accurate contact 
>details including valid email and mailing address.
>
>Of course, this amendment still doesn't require the registrar to 
>identify its primary place of business.  The registrar could have 
>its primary base of operations in India, yet work through a 
>Delaware-based shell corporation that maintains a contact point at a 
>Canadian mailboxes-r-us (which could serve as a valid email and 
>mailing address).
>
>Dozens of Registrars located internationally are using "mail-drop" 
>addresses and post office boxes in the United States and Canada as 
>primary addresses -- do we want to encourage this deceptive 
>behavior?  The proposed amendment does little to nothing to address 
>the concerned raised by users on this topic.
>
>Thanks to ICANN Staff for once more demonstrating that they will 
>only give lip service to user concerns.
>
>
>
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