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

[Paul Westley]

I'll further endorse Ross's motion. Does this make 5 now?

Paul Westley
Internetters

At 05:10 PM 16/09/2003 -0400, Jim Archer wrote:
>I had also seconded Ross' motion.
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>--On Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:55 PM -0400 Elana Broitman 
><ebroitman at register.com> wrote:
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>>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,
>>
>>Elana Broitman
>>Register.com
>>575 Eighth Avenue
>>New York, NY 10018
>>Phone (212) 798-9215
>>Fax   (212) 629-9309
>>ebroitman at register.com
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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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>>--
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>>                         -rwr
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