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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We fully support the points raised by Alex below. Registrant contactability is an essential function of RDS, and the Working Group has
agreed as such. Therefore, we agree it may be necessary to revisit the preliminary conclusion that provision by the registrant of additional points of contact for a P/P domain name (e.g. admin/tech/legal) should be merely optional. We look forward to further
consideration of this issue within the WG.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brian, Phil, and Griffin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="3">Brian J. Winterfeldt<o:p></o:p></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Co-Head of Global Brand Management and Internet Practice<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mayer Brown LLP<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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On Aug 23, 2017, at 3:30 PM, Deacon, Alex <<a href="mailto:Alex_Deacon@mpaa.org">Alex_Deacon@mpaa.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Apologies for the typo in the subject. Should be Contactability not Contractibility.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Alex<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="color:black"><<a href="mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces@icann.org">gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces@icann.org</a>> on behalf of "Deacon, Alex" <<a href="mailto:Alex_Deacon@mpaa.org">Alex_Deacon@mpaa.org</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 11:56 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg@icann.org">gnso-rds-pdp-wg@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-rds-pdp-wg@icann.org">gnso-rds-pdp-wg@icann.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Contactability, PBC and required contact methods....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Hi All,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">I’ve been thinking about the discussion we had on this week’s call and the preliminary WG agreements that resulted from those discussions. E.g.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="color:black">Preliminary WG Agreement:</span></b><span style="color:black"> To improve contactability with the domain name registrant (or authorized agent of the registrant), the RDS must be capable
of supporting at least one alternative contact method as an optional field.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="color:black">Preliminary WG Agreement:</span></b><span style="color:black"> PBC types identified (Admin, Legal, Technical, Abuse, Proxy/Privacy, Business) must be supported by the RDS but optional
for registrants to provide</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">While I understand these are preliminary and high-level non-concrete concepts I wanted to point out that the main idea of the these preliminary WG agreements was to “improve contractability”.
My concern is that these agreements do exactly the opposite. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">In today’s WHOIS we have 3 mandatory contact types (a.k.a. PBC): registrant, admin, tech. Each of those three types mandate at 3 contact methods (email, phone and physical mail) and allow
for one optional contact method (Fax). i.e. 3*3=9 potential methods to initiate contact with the registrant. (And before you respond I do understand that often these contact types contain the same contact info.) Even when all 3 contact types are
the same there exists 3 separate contact methods that increase contactability (1*3=3)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Today’s preliminary agreements indicate that we could end up with a single contact type (Registrant) with a single contact method (email address). i.e. 1*1=1</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">This will clearly will decrease contactability – not increase it. I think we have more work to do here….</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Alex</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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