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It sounds like the recommendation is indeed an increase in compliance demands, but no funding&nbsp;<div>for an automated monitoring tool, and that sounds silly to some. However, often organizations, whether commercial or non, lag behind in developing such tools.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>BUT, this is helpful to our purposes of interacting related to budget, and my draft letter, which I hope to finalize and share with others tomorrow.&nbsp;</div><div>Sorry for delay.&nbsp;</div><div>But, thanks, Ron, for your efforts to keep this a focus...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="'Lucida Handwriting', cursive"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16pt; "><b><i><br></i></b></span></font><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: randruff@rnapartners.com<br>To: zahid@dndrc.com; bc-gnso@icann.org<br>Subject: RE: [bc-gnso] FW: [council] Response from ICANN Compliance re. RAP recommendations<br>Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:32:03 -0500<br><br>


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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">It’s starting to feel like Alice in Wonderland…&nbsp;
A Working Group spends countless hours debating VI, followed by the Board making
its own decision “based on experts” rather than the community.&nbsp; We
are informed that a Code of Conduct will resolve the issues and, not to worry, all
the resources necessary for a fully-funded Compliance Department will be made
available.&nbsp; Then the positions for the Head of Compliance plus two other
officers remain unfilled for the better part of a year… </span></font></p>

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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">Now Pam Little’s response to GNSO
Council questions is scary (emphasis added):</span></font></p>

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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">With regard to part “b)” of
Recommendation 2, </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;color:black">the RAA requires that registrars provide </span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial">an interactive web page and</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;color:black">a
port 43 WHOIS access.&nbsp; As mentioned above, the Compliance department uses an
automated tool to monitor registrar port 43 access obligations.&nbsp;&nbsp; However, the monitoring
tool does not monitor web-based WHOIS obligations. <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Monitoring registrar compliance with web based WHOIS access requires a
manual check of each the 970+ registrars’ websites, as the Compliance
department currently does not have an automated monitoring tool.&nbsp; </span></b></span></font><b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold"></span></font></b></p>

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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">I wonder which compliance officer(s)
spends their life on this task?&nbsp; In reality, not enough.&nbsp; So, as I now
understand it, we will have a set of laws in the new ‘Code of Conduct’
(pdp or staff generated?) that the vertically integrated entities will honorably
abide by, left unchecked due to lack of staff and clearly structural issues vis-à-vis
how ICANN monitors compliance.</span></font></p>

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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font size="3" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">My head is spinning…&nbsp;&nbsp; Is it just
me?</span></font></p>

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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">Ronald N. Andruff</span></font><font color="blue"><span style="color:blue"></span></font></p>

<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">RNA Partners, Inc.</span></font></p>

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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">
owner-bc-gnso@icann.org [mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Zahid Jamil<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, February 24, 2011
11:44 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> 'Bc GNSO list '<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [bc-gnso] FW: [council]
Response from ICANN Compliance re. RAP recommendations</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></font></p>

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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D">Sincerely,</span></font></p>

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owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Marika Konings<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> 23 February 2011 13:48<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> council@gnso.icann.org<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [council] Response from
ICANN Compliance re. RAP recommendations</span></font></p>

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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Please find attached
the response from ICANN's Compliance Department in relation to resolved #1 of
the recently adopted motion on the Registration Abuse Policies Working Group
Final Report (<span class="ecxapple-style-span">RESOLVED #1, the GNSO Council
instructs ICANN Policy Staff to forward the two issues identified by the RAP
IDT as having low resource</span><span class="ecxapple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="ecxapple-style-span">requirements, WHOIS Access recommendation #2 and Fake
Renewal Notices recommendation #1, to ICANN Compliance Staff for resolution.
ICANN</span><span class="ecxapple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="ecxapple-style-span">Compliance Staff is requested to provide the GNSO
Council with its feedback on the two recommendations and proposed
implementation in a timely manner).</span></span></font></p>

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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span class="ecxapple-style-span"><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Pam Little,&nbsp;Interim Head of Contractual Compliance, is not
available to participate in the Council meeting coming Thursday, but she is
happy to take further comments / questions by email. In addition, she has
indicated that she is available to discuss the response and any further
questions in person with the Council during the weekend session at the ICANN
meeting in San Francisco,
if required.</span></font></span><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"></span></font></p>

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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span class="ecxapple-style-span"><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">With best regards,</span></font></span><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"></span></font></p>

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