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

[Alan Greenberg]

I will do that.  Alan

At 16/12/2008 04:15 AM, Adam Peake wrote:
>>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:
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>Alan,
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>It seems amendments are still being made.  Could you ask staff and 
>GNSO if they will accept the Consumer Reports standard Beau's proposing:
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>>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.
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>Adam
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>>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
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>>Subject: [NA-Discuss] Latest RAA amendment
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>>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:
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>>3.16 Registrar shall provide on its web site its accurate contact 
>>details including valid email and mailing address.
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>>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).
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>>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.
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>>Thanks to ICANN Staff for once more demonstrating that they will 
>>only give lip service to user concerns.
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