[registrars] Definition of Registry Services in recent gtld agreements and scope of price caps

[Thomas Keller]

It seems that my english is failing me. What exactly does

(ii) provided by the Registry Operator for the .net registry as of the
     Effective Date, as the case may be;

mean?

tom

     
Am 01.08.2005 schrieb Bruce Tonkin:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> Registry Services are defined in recent agreements as:
> 
> Taken from, Article III COVENANTS, Section 3.1 (d) Registry Operations,
> (iii) of the .net agreement:
> 
> Registry Services. Registry Services are, for purposes of this
> Agreement, defined as the following: 
> 
> (a) those services that are both 
> 
>  (i) operations of the registry critical to the following tasks: 
> - the receipt of data from registrars concerning registrations of domain
> names and name servers;
> - provision to registrars of status information relating to the zone
> servers for the TLD;
> - dissemination of TLD zone files;
> - operation of the registry zone servers;
> - and dissemination of contact and other information concerning domain
> name server registrations in the TLD as required by this Agreement; 
> 
> and 
> 
>  (ii) provided by the Registry Operator for the .net registry as of the
> Effective Date, as the case may be; 
> 
> (b) other products or services that the Registry Operator is required to
> provide because of the establishment of a Consensus Policy 
> (as defined in Section 3.1(b) above); 
> 
> (c) any other products or services that only a registry operator is
> capable 
> of providing, by reason of its designation as the registry operator; 
> 
> and 
> 
> (d) material changes to any Registry Service within the scope of (a),
> (b) or (c) 
> above. Only Registry Services defined in (a) and (b) above are subject
> to 
> the maximum price provisions of Section 7.3, below. "
> 
> 
> Note that price caps only apply to the services in categories (a) and
> (b) above.  Thus price caps would not apply to any new services proposed
> by a registry operator.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bruce
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Gruss,

tom

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