[ICANN-CSC] [EXT] Re: CSC Meeting 30: Recording, Notes, & Chat

Kim Davies kim.davies at iana.org
Fri Jun 7 17:43:12 UTC 2019


Hi Allan,

Quoting Allan MacGillivray on Friday June 07, 2019:
> But one very general one is that the ccTLD community is very, very particular about terminology and for them, the reference document is the Final Report of the Framework of Interpretation Working Group’.  I recommend that you stick to the terminology therein which refers to ccTLD ‘delegations and transfers’, rather than ‘creations/transfers’.  I think that we can avoid some comments if Bart were to closely review the first paragraph in the background section to ensure that PTI is not seen to be deviating from establish orthodoxy.

I don't disagree with the sentiment, but I would note that terminology
is not something new that is being introduced with this document - the
lineage dates at least to the community's transition proposal that
informed the SLAs. The "SLE Working Group Report on Service Level
Expectation for IANA Root Zone Management (Post-Transition)", from what
was known as Design Team A, reads:

    Category III (Creating or Transferring a gTLD)—Requests to
    create (“delegate”) or transfer (“redelegate” or “assign”) a generic
    top-level domain. These changes require additional processing by IANA
    to ensure policy and contractual requirements are met associated
    with a change of control for the TLD. While the key processing is
    performed elsewhere within ICANN, the IANA processing is significant
    and therefore distinguishes this type of request from a routine change
    request.
    
    Category IV (Creating or Transferring a ccTLD)—Requests to
    create or transfer a country-code top-level domain. These changes
    require additional processing by IANA to ensure policy requirements are
    met. This processing is performed by IANA staff, and includes performing
    additional analysis on the change request, producing a report, and
    having that report reviewed externally(including verification that all
    existing registration data has been successfully transferred from the
    old to new Registry operator). This processing is significant, and
    is normally substantially longer than a routine change request, and
    therefore should be distinguished.

kim



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