[registrars] Verisign change to operation of the .com DNS lookup service

[Jim Archer]

I had also seconded Ross' motion.

--On Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:55 PM -0400 Elana Broitman 
<ebroitman at register.com> wrote:

> I note that Ross' motion received one "second."  Our rules of procedure
> require 5 endorsements, so I will add myself to the endorsement list.
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> If Ross can get 3 more, it can go forward for a vote.  I also note,
> however, that the relevant date for getting our position heard is the
> GNSO Council's Sept. 25th telephone meeting.  There seems to be a great
> deal of interest and concern among constituency members.  Therefore, if
> there are no objections, I would recommend that we use boardrooms to vote
> on an expedited basis, so that a vote could be concluded by the 24th.  Is
> there any objection?
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> Regards,
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> Elana Broitman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ross at tucows.com
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 6:12 AM
> To: Bruce Tonkin
> Cc: registrars at dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [registrars] Verisign change to operation of the .com DNS
> lookup service
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> On 9/16/2003 12:29 AM Bruce Tonkin noted that:
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>> It would be useful to have a registrar constituency position on this
>> topic.
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> Here's a motion for discussion
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> "The Registrar Constituency strongly recommends that the GNSO Council
> advocate that ICANN explicitly require gTLD Registry Operators to return
> an NXDOMAIN response for DNS records that do not exist and that in all
> cases, wild-card entries in gTLD zones should be strictly forbidden."
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> There are any number of reasons why this is desirable, I don't think I
> need to rehash those.
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