[registrars] Ross's Motion - Suggeseted Amendment

[Elana Broitman]

how about:

"Whereas the VeriSign Registry has launched a new service that potentially risks the stability and security of the domain name system and undermines competition in the registrar and registry sectors without prior notice or consultation within ICANN, the Registrar Constituency strongly recommends that ICANN require the VeriSign Registry Operator to temporarilly cease this new service and return an NXDOMAIN response for DNS records that do not exist and that in all cases and forbid the VeriSign Registry from including wild-card entries in gTLD zones until such time as the Supporting Organizations provide input on security, stability and competition issues, and ICANN staff ensures that any such service would be in compliance with the VeriSign Registry Agreement.  The Registrar Constituency further recommends that any other gTLD registry follow such a consultation and notice process prior to launching any similar service."

Elana Broitman
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-----Original Message-----
From: ross at tucows.com 
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:25 PM
To: Rob Hall
Cc: Registrars Mail List
Subject: Re: [registrars] Ross's Motion - Suggeseted Amendment


On 9/18/2003 1:16 PM Rob Hall noted that:

 > 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 ?

If it suspends all gTLD implementations until the study has been 
completed and a process has been followed to carefully gauge the impact 
of the proposed change on the technical and user communities, then yes. 
I don't want to be in a situation in a few weeks or months where the 
SSAC issues some findings and Verisign or Neulevel says "Thanks for the 
input, we'll take it under advisement" and ignores the interests and 
wishes of the community.

Elana and I talked earlier about essentially the same thing, but I've 
had a hard time framing it in words - can you put forward some proposed 
text that we could incorporate?

As well - Jim Archer - if you're listening, now's the time to get those 
"whereas's" in...

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                        -rwr