[registrars] Ross's Motion - Suggeseted Amendment

[Rob Hall]

Ross,

I have some concerns about your motion.

Basically, I believe it to be too technical and restrictive.  As you often
say, I believe we should be speaking first to the process and policy that we
want, and then implementing the details.  I think your motion does the
latter, not the former.

Don't get me wrong, I am against what Verisign has done, but even more so, I
am concerned about the methods they used to do it.  It appears that ICANN
staff OK's this another TLD, and Verisign took their all too familiar stance
of "it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission".  Given the recent
actions of Verisign in this case, in the WLS implementation, and the recent
action against them by the FTC, I believe it is time ICANN start taking a
hard look at their methods.

I would support a motion that spoke to the fact that the process within
ICANN was not followed, and it should be.  Before we outlaw wild card
entries on ALL TLD's, we probably should put them through the GNSO process
within ICANN.  There may be instances where they are beneficial for some
TLD's(although I suspect not in the com zone).

Would you consider an amendment to your motion that refers the matter to the
GNSO for immediate study, and suspends the recent Verisign implementation
until the study is completed ?

Rob.



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org
[mailto:owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org]On Behalf Of Ross Wm. Rader
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


On 9/16/2003 12:29 AM Bruce Tonkin noted that:

> It would be useful to have a registrar constituency position on this
> topic.

Here's a motion for discussion

"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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                        -rwr