[NA-Discuss] Public Comment: Proposal for Renewal of the .NET Registry Agreement
Eric Brunner-Williams
ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net
Tue Apr 26 16:41:22 UTC 2011
Colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to the following issue, which I've
not seen mentioned yet in the ALAC Working List or the NARALO
discussion list.
In the period from the selection of ICANN as the New Entity to the
present date, the single act that most reduced the monopoly in gTLD
registry function was the redelegation of the .ORG registry,
affecting, and benefiting, several millions of registrants and the
users of their resolved resources for web pages, mailing list, and
other programmatic resources.
Given the competition policy rational for the existence of the
corporation, and the obvious difference between establishment of new
registries benefiting by a presumption of contract renewal, absent
cause, and the maintenance of a legacy monopoly market, abusing the
presumption of contract renewal, and the At Large purpose of
representing the public interest, I propose that a comment be drafted
to the effect that its signers, perhaps entire At Large regional
organizations, even the At Large Advisory Committee, prefer that the
presumptive renewal language not appear in legacy contracts currently
held by the monopoly operator.
The announcement by ICANN is here:
http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-11apr11-en.htm
Thank you all for your time and attention,
Eric
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