[EURO-Discuss] Registrant-reseller issues

Annette Muehlberg annette.muehlberg at web.de
Tue Jan 23 13:40:05 EST 2007


All,
we, Steve, Vittorio and myself had a short discussion on 
registrant-reseller issues and would like to get your inputs on them - 
also in respect of preparing the ICANN meeting in Lisboa.

Best wishes
Annette


 > Steve Crocker schrieb:
 >> Vittorio and Annette,
 >>
 >> Thanks!
 >>
 >> I don't have a detailed agenda in mind, and I think you've covered
 >> the main ideas. ICANN cannot directly regulate or respond to every
 >> detail, so I think it's essential for improvements to come from
 >> education and community pressure, not just contracts and
 >> enforcement. A balance is needed.
 >>
 >> I think the key first step is to identify the things that go wrong
 >> and the improvements we'd like to see. Whenever possible, I'd
 >> suggest keeping this separate from specific proposals about how to
 >> cause those improvements to happen. Once we have a common
 >> understanding and consensus on the destination, we can have good
 >> discussions about how best to get there. For example, to take the
 >> case you have dealt with, an end-user discovered she(?) did not
 >> actually have control of the domain name, and I imagine you would
 >> like to see such situations reduced or eliminated. Or, perhaps,
 >> simply made very clear so the end-user understands the situation
 >> and knows what the rules are. That's the "destination." "Routes"
 >> to get there might be via contract and enforcement, or might be
 >> via large scale education and publicity, or might involve a
 >> combination. Or perhaps yet other ideas beyond these two.
 >>
 >> I look forward to further interaction.
 >>
 >> Since we are discussing here the potential for joint work with the
 >> SSAC, I will take the liberty of sending a copy to the SSAC list.
 >>
 >> Thanks,
 >>
 >> Steve
 >>
 >>
 >> Steve Crocker
 >> steve at shinkuro.com
 >>
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 >>
 >>
 >> On Jan 22, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
 >>
 >>> Steve Crocker ha scritto:
 >>>> Let me take this opportunity to make you a specific offer.
 >>>> Within SSAC we are now looking for opportunities to work
 >>>> together with other groups on matters which are of interest to
 >>>> the other group and which have a security and/or stability
 >>>> component. We are currently working closely with the Root Server
 >>>> System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) on a technically complex
 >>>> matter of adding IPv6 addresses to the root zone for the root
 >>>> servers. This is working out very well, and I am eager to
 >>>> partner with other groups. We are quite open to working with the
 >>>> ALAC -- or other groups -- in a joint effort to improve the
 >>>> safety of the marketplace for registrants. If this is of
 >>>> interest, let's lay the groundwork for substantive interaction
 >>>> when we're all together in Portugal in March.
 >>>
 >>> I have forwarded your offer to the rest of the ALAC, and there is
 >>> consensus that it would be good to meet in Lisbon and to discuss
 >>> what we could do together, and maybe even prepare the matter
 >>> before. I am now copying this message to Annette Muehlberg, who
 >>> is the current Chair of the ALAC, so that you might get in touch
 >>> and arrange something.
 >>>
 >>> I don't know whether you had specific ideas, but perhaps we could
 >>> work on a common proposal about things that ICANN could do to
 >>> help registrants achieve better protection, ranging from best
 >>> practices to new contractual requirements to registrars and
 >>> through them to resellers. Perhaps we could start an email loop
 >>> among subgroups, or open a specific mailing list, or... what else?
 >>>
 >>> Regards,
 >>> --vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <--------
 >>> --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------
 >>
 >>






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