[NA-Discuss] DRAFT statement on .pr
Beau Brendler
beaubrendler at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 14 20:04:09 UTC 2011
got it. Will make the change on the final.
As for the root zone question, I do not know. Perhaps Garth B. might. If not
we could ask Lutz in EURALO.
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From: Eduardo Diaz
Sent: Oct 14, 2011 3:56 PM
To: Beau Brendler
Cc: na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org, staff at atlarge.icann.org
Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] DRAFT statement on .pr
Beau:
Great revision!. Just a one change - see below.
By the way, do anybody knows how to get all zone file changes to an specific
ccTLD since its inception?
Thanks.
-ed
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Beau Brendler
<[1]beaubrendler at earthlink.net> wrote:
Hello, all.
Here is the statement on the .pr controversy prepared by Eduardo with
comments by Garth and final revisions by me. Please read and give feedback
promptly. I'd also like Eduardo to look over it carefully to make sure
there are no editing errors introduced.
STATEMENT OF THE NORTH AMERICAN AT-LARGE REGIONAL ORGANIZATION ON THE
MISAPPROPRIATION OF THE .PR DOMAIN
The North American At-Large Regional Organization wants to bring the ICANN
communityâs attention to a serious concern regarding management of Puerto
Ricoâs country code top-level domain, .pr, following a June 2011 lawsuit
filed by The University of Puerto Rico against the domainâs manager
alleging misappropriation of public funds and inappropriate ownership
claim of the domain, among other allegations.
Background
In 1988, the U.S. National Science Foundation established a program to
expand use of the Internet outside the United States by establishing a
domain registration that would allow each country connected to the network
to offer access the Internet through that domain.
Within that program, the University of Puerto Rico, through its Gauss
Research Laboratory in the Natural Sciences department, requested the
domain ".pr" (institutional research number 8818283, "Support for the
Participation of the University of Puerto Rico in the NSFNetâ). This
proposal was approved in 1989 and administration of the .pr domain was
designated to the âGauss Research Laboratoryâ with the university as
manager.
In 2006, the .pr ccTLDâs manager contacted the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority to request a name change in the sponsoring organization, from
the University of Puerto Rico to a corporation with the same name,
including the abbreviations âINC. i.e. Gauss Research Laboratory, Inc.â As
a result of this change, Gauss Research Laboratory Inc. was permitted to
remove the .pr ccTLD operations outside the university campus, as well
proceeded (or a similar verb) to remove the .pr...
as redirect any funds generated by domain purchases.
Results of IANA Decision
It is apparent IANA, in its decision, considered the request for a name
change in the sponsoring organization to be an administrative task, not a
re-delegation of the ccTLD. However, according to the lawsuit, the ccTLD
manager took action as if a full re-delegation had been made, allowing him
to move the operation outside the university. Critically, in 2007, Gauss
Research Laboratory, Inc. filed a change in corporate status from
non-profit to for-profit with the Department of State of the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico.
Therefore, IANAâs decision effectively resulted in the hijacking of a
public resource from a non-profit educational institution to a for-profit
corporation.
The NARALO is concerned the apparent âre-delegationâ of the .pr domain
represents a potential abuse of public trust and misappropriation of
Internet resources.
In addition, while the controversy over Puerto Rico's country-code domain
may seem unusual, findings presented in the final report of the ccNSO
Delegation and Redelegation Working Group
([2]http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/final-drd-report-02may11-en.pdf)
clearly indicate it is not.
NARALO applauds and supports the ccNSO working groupâs desire, stated in
that report, to âcreate an environment for making consistent and
predictable decisions regarding the delegation, re-delegation and
retirement of ccTLDs while enhancing accountability and transparency.â
Therefore, at the 2011 ICANN meeting in Dakar, NARALO will present the
facts and allegations in this case, as well as examples of similar cases,
in hopes of prompting a multi-stakeholder discussion and approach to
create such an environment worldwide.
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