<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hi, All,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Thank you to everyone who attended the call; it was a very robust discussion.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For those who were unable to attend, I have attached instructions on how to listen to the recording. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">At the start of the call, I presented a scenario whereby a Prior Registrant would be unable to ACK/affirm a Change of Registrant request (COR) request because their email account no longer exists. (Perhaps they left their company, university, etc.) Similarly, if someone were to move and suddenly have a new address, telephone, email address, ISP provider, it would be impossible to ACK a COR via email, postal mail, phone, etc. While this is narrow use case, ICANN staff and the IRT are trying to ensure that we are not creating an unworkable scenario where a Prior Registrant cannot update his or her email address. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Section 3.4 of the draft COR Policy would allow a registrant to log into their account and update their information via their verified account. This gets around the non-existent email address issue, but some have expressed concerns about the risk of hijacking since resellers, hosting providers, et. al., may be an account holder. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">ICANN staff is currently seeking solutions to the problem mentioned above. Specifically, we are looking for alternative authentication methods besides the exchange of pin. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A couple of suggestions mentioned on the call include:</div><ol style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><li>FOAs for change of registrant. (The Prior Registrant would receive an informative FOA at its email address (listed in Whois) and if it doesn’t contact the registrar within a certain number of days, the email change would go through.)</li><li>Alternative authentication depending on the type of registrant change, i.e., a different authentication method could be used if the name is staying in the same account rather than a “push” between accounts</li></ol><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Please feel free to elaborate on the above or provide new suggestions entirely. We discussed the difficulty with the resolution of this particular problem and how this may need to back to the GNSO for more guidance if it cannot be resolved within the IRT, particularly since the IRT is not a representative body of the ICANN community.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Please provide any suggestions to me by COB </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Thursday, 18 December.</b> Thank you in advance for your feedback. </font></div><div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Kind regards,</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Caitlin </font></font></div></div></body></html>