[NA-Discuss] [Fwd: [ALAC-Internal] FW: Call for Comments on GNSO Domain Tasting Motion ... ACTION Required for RALO's and ALS input]

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Danny and all,

  With all due respect, although I, nor any of our members
advocate eliminating the AGP, and in that the consensus 
of the ALAC/ALS'es was to do so, keeping the AGP only 
serves to exacerbate the Credit Card fraud problem rather
than manage it.  In fact requiring a credit card to register
a domain name in the first place also only exacerbates the
credit card fraud problem, rather than manage it, all for
what I would think are obvious reasons...

  Additionally, requiring any potential registrant to use
a credit card to register a domain name is decidedly a
restraint of trade, as well as a huge potential for
exposier of IDtheft.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger at yahoo.com>
>Sent: May 3, 2008 8:48 AM
>To: John Levine <johnl at iecc.com>, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org>
>Cc: NA Discuss <na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] [Fwd: [ALAC-Internal] FW: Call for Comments on	GNSO Domain Tasting Motion ... ACTION Required for RALO's and	ALS input]
>
>Let's be clear about something... the Registrar
>Constituency's primary argument in favor of retaining
>the AGP is for its use as a device within which credit
>card fraud may be managed.  At the very least, if we
>will be arguing to eliminate the AGP, we should be
>offering up an alternative and suitable way to
>mitigate Registrar fraud concerns if we hope to arrive
>at a consensus-based solution.
>
>The only way that I can think of having this
>accomplished is via new language in a Credits Section
>within the Service Level Agreement that is part of the
>relevant Registry-Registrar Agreement -- see for
>example http://www.verisign.com/static/002136.pdf
>
>This, of course, will require cooperation from the
>Registries who may not be prone to re-drafting their
>agreements.
>
>Does anyone else that is advocating AGP elimination
>have any concrete suggestions to deal with the fraud
>concerns that can be put on the table?
>
>
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