[gnso-rpm-wg] URS Proposal #33 - putting URS providers under contract

George Kirikos icann at leap.com
Fri Oct 12 00:14:20 UTC 2018


Hi folks,

In preparing for tomorrow's presentation, I stumbled upon the
following blog post by Philip Corwin (then of the ICA) in 2013:

https://www.internetcommerce.org/urs_truth_breach/

which documented that "the STI-RT unanimously recommended that URS
providers be placed under contract, and then the board unanimously
adopted all of its recommendations regarding the URS"

Steve Crocker (ICANN Chairman at that time), in response to a
question, noted that:

"Yes, a contract is being developed and additional URS providers will be added."

The blog post went on to say:

"But to ICANN we give a total FAIL for its disingenuous response to
our question about contracts for URS providers. Rest assured, this is
a subject on which we do not intend to rest or retreat."

I didn't reference this document in my proposal, but did want to put
it into the record in advance of our call, to further support the
background and rationale of the proposal. Folks may want to read it in
its entirety, instead of simply the snippets above.

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
416-588-0269
http://www.leap.com/


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