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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">At the risk of being further drummed
out of this RDS camp, I find the letter neither bad nor amusing.
The limiting of WhoIS access by one registrar is an early warning
that if ICANN does not resolve these issues within its
multistakeholder process, other stakeholders will take independent
action in their own self-interest as they perceive it. Both nature
and policy abhor a vacuum<br>
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Second, the security of domain name ownership and the process of
ownership transfer sit right in the crosshairs of evolving
distributed ledger (e.g. blockchain) solutions to handing
ownership and transfers. I have a bottle of wine bet with a friend
that a distributed ledger application will dis-intermediate the
handling of domain name ownership and transfers. Registrars will
have to survive on value added services, with ICANN facing reduced
fee revenues.<br>
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Any distributed ledger application is not likely to be a private
distributed ledger, which would probably be seen as a cartel in
restraint of competition, and more likely will be a federated or
consortium solution. It could be a public solution if the
stakeholder community moves slow enough. As John B. says, the
choices are on the table, and the slower the response the higher
the probability of actions (including dis-intermediation) from
others.<br>
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Sam L. <br>
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On 4/18/2018 3:15 PM, John Bambenek via gnso-rds-pdp-wg wrote:<br>
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