[registrars] Ross's Motion - Suggeseted Amendment

[Ross Wm. Rader]

On 9/18/2003 3:24 PM Alice's Registry Help Desk noted that:
> ross,
> nice speach....
> 
> 

erm...thanks. I think.

> how can we give the "community" a voice? we (registrars) are not the 
> only community, though the customers of ours (registrants) certainly 
> represent a larger subset than we do.

Registrars are part of the community, as are registrants. There are many 
elements to the community. But, giving the community a voice is not what 
is at issue here.

> shal we endevor to give them a "voice?" Since ICANN has decided that its too 
> dificult to allow domain registrants to participate in this process, I 
> believe we should be their advocates (they are also our customers)

Different battle. I fully support a registrants rights to have a voice 
in the process, but they are not my customers, nor do I believe that we 
have any right to speak on their behalf unless we have specifically 
consulted with them and they have explicitly allowed us to speak for them.

> I believe my proposal for using the whois to express a registrants view on a 
> specific iss an excelent way to provide for "a community consultation."

Its one way of pursuing one option. There are other ways and other 
options - and not to burst your bubble, but this really isn't the issue 
at hand.

I'm more interested in what we, as registrars, are going to say about 
what Verisign is doing with wildcards in the .com and .net DNS.


-- 
Regards,


	-rwr






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