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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Thanks for laying out so nicely, Jim.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">For allocation of reserved names, Neustar prefers Option 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">For handling of Claims for reserved names with marks in the TMCH, Neustar prefers Option 4 first, but if still required to support Claims, then Option 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">--Roy Dykes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> tmch-tech-bounces@icann.org [mailto:tmch-tech-bounces@icann.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gould, James<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 21, 2014 4:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nic Steinbach; Rubens Kuhl<br>
<b>Cc:</b> tmch-tech@icann.org; gtld-tech@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tmch-tech] RPM Requirement of Supporting Claims Service for Release or Allocation of Reserved Domain Names<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Nic,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">I agree that finding a consistent / standard approach to this would benefit all participants. &nbsp;There are two problems that need to be addressed for these names,
 which include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Allocation of the reserved names
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Should reserved name applications get created and allocated per draft-ietf-eppext-launchphase? &nbsp;
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The creation of applications may be mixed with registrations. &nbsp;This is not a launch phase, but a release of a set of domains. &nbsp;For registrars not explicitly participating in the release of the
 reserved names, it would be unclear why an application was created over a registration. &nbsp;One mechanism to mitigate this is to require the &lt;launch:create&gt; extension with the &#8220;type&#8221; attribute set to &#8220;application&#8221; for the reserved domains. &nbsp;I&#8217;m assuming that
 the check response would return back unavailable for reserved domains with a reason like &#8220;reserved domain&#8221; so not to mislead non-participating registrars. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level3 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Following the full application state machine, as defined in&nbsp;draft-ietf-eppext-launchphase, may be overkill for releasing a smaller set of names. &nbsp;Registrars may be discouraged from participating
 based on the level of complexity associated with the application state machine.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Should an allocation string / token be used to authorize the registration of a reserved domain name that is made available out-of-band? &nbsp;For example, an auction provider could provide the allocation
 string / token to the winner of the auction and the registrar would pass it with the domain create of the reserved domain via either the RFC 5731 authorization info or another EPP extension. &nbsp;
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The registries and the registrars would need to support a new mechanism for creating a reserved domain in using the allocation string / token. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level3 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">This is simpler than using the application state machine of&nbsp;draft-ietf-eppext-launchphase. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Handling the claims service for reserved names that have marks in the TMCH
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">This problem was the point of the initial list posting, where the claims service would need to be re-enabled by registries and participating registrars for use only with the reserved domains
 potentially well past the claims launch phase. &nbsp;This assumes that a registry does not run claims indefinitely. &nbsp;Since reserved names would probably not be released all at once, this cycle would have to be repeated many times for each TLD.&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The options include:
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Registries and participating registrars must fully support the claims service based on the RPM requirements. &nbsp;The registry must re-enable the claims check service, must re-enable the claims acknowledgement
 verification, and must re-enable the LORDN interface for a subset of the domain names. &nbsp;The registrars must re-enable the use of the claims check service, must re-enable their interface with the CNIS, and must re-enable passing the claims acknowledgement for
 reserved domains that have marks. &nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">This is a great amount of overhead for the registries and the registrars for releasing a set of domain names potentially well past the claims launch period. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level4 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">This will discourage registrar participation.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level4 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The registries must keep support for claims indefinitely that can be enabled later. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Registries and participating registrars support asynchronous claims acknowledgement out-of-band of EPP. &nbsp;&nbsp;
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The registries would allow the creation of reserved domains that will be put in pendingCreate if there is a matching mark. &nbsp;The claims acknowledge would need to be passed to the registry out-of-band
 to allocate the domain.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level4 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Reserved domains that don&#8217;t have matching marks will be immediately allocated, assuming that the registry does not have a pendingCreate model. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">As Roy suggested, require claims service notification from the registries to the TMCH without the front-end claims service requirements. &nbsp;I would loosely define this as &#8220;Claims Lite&#8221;, where the
 TMCH and subsequently ICANN will receive systematic notification of reserved name allocations that have marks. &nbsp;We could consider broadening the notifications to include providing the initial reserved name list, release of the reserved domains, and finally
 allocation of all reserved domains. &nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The registrars would not be impacted at all since there is no need to present the claims notice to the registrant, so therefore it will encourage registrar participation. &nbsp; &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level4 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Registries would need to support a new LORDN-like interface with the TMCH that may require a broader set of systematic notifications for monitoring and visibility by the mark holders and ICANN.
 &nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level4 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Registries would not be required to support the claims check service and claims acknowledge validation. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level4 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">This could be an alternate approach to what is currently defined in the RPM requirements for the claims service. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Don&#8217;t require support for the claims service for the releasing of reserved names. &nbsp;
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The reserved domains will be registered and allocated after the required claims launch period, where other domains registered and allocated during the &#8220;open&#8221; phase have no equivalent requirement.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">From:
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<b>Date: </b>Monday, May 19, 2014 at 10:32 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Rubens Kuhl &lt;<a href="mailto:rubensk@nic.br">rubensk@nic.br</a>&gt;<br>
<b>Cc: </b>&quot;<a href="mailto:tmch-tech@icann.org">tmch-tech@icann.org</a>&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:tmch-tech@icann.org">tmch-tech@icann.org</a>&gt;, &quot;<a href="mailto:gtld-tech@icann.org">gtld-tech@icann.org</a>&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:gtld-tech@icann.org">gtld-tech@icann.org</a>&gt;<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [tmch-tech] RPM Requirement of Supporting Claims Service for Release or Allocation of Reserved Domain Names<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">It would be nice to have a standard way of addressing this - supporting claims indefinitely, pursuing an alternate method like the one mentioned by Roy or any
 other solution - but I think given the TLD roll out so far standardization across all platforms seems unlikely. A PDP would not have tangible results before some registries would like to pursue this path. I would be surprised if a registry didn't implement
 a delayed reserved rollout along these lines this quarter and it will only pick from there.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Instead registries need to realize the development burdens on registry operators and registrars so that there reserved rollout is as standard as possible and
 enticing enough to make these burdens worthwhile. Given the nature of these names - it is certainly possible to make the program enticing. I would guess that as least within a registry operator, the mechanism for addressing both the claims and the validation
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Rubens Kuhl &lt;<a href="mailto:rubensk@nic.br" target="_blank">rubensk@nic.br</a>&gt; wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Have you been able to use GDD Portal to get eternal claims service ? It seems to require a fixed date when submitting TLD Startup Info...&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">If Registry Operator reserves a domain name from registration in accordance with Section 2.6 of the Agreement and Specification 5 of the Agreement and thereafter (i) releases for
 Allocation or registration such reserved domain name at any time prior to the start date of the Claims Period, such domain name MUST be treated like any other domain name for any applicable Sunrise Period, Limited Registration Period, Launch Program or Claims
 Period, or (ii) <b>releases for Allocation or registration such reserved domain name at any time following the start date of the Claims Period, such domain name MUST be subject to the Claims Services (as defined in Section 3) for a period of ninety (90) calendar
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 they will have to support the Claims Services well past the Claims Period (potentially years). &nbsp;This represents a costly burden to the registries having to indefinitely download the DNL list, support the claims check, validating the domain creates against
 the DNL list for a subset of domain names, and support the TMCH LORDN interface. &nbsp;This also represents a costly burden to registrars or discourages registrar participation in supporting the release of reserved domain names. &nbsp;The registrars would need to know
 to use the claims check, use the CNIS for presenting the claims notice, and passing the claims acknowledgement indefinitely. &nbsp; &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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