[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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