[registrars] GNSO Council Progress Review

[Ross Rader]

Here is the GNSO Council progress report I presented to the Registrar 
Constituency meeting in Wellington.

Regarding the question of new gTLDs, further input from the registrar 
community is required on the following points:


* Should the minimum technical criteria for registry operations be set 
according to the current registry operations of, for example, .NET 
requirements?
* Should the minimum technical criteria make some reference to the 
proposed size of a new registry [to enable appropriate adjustments to be 
made based on the number of names under management]?
* Should a separate registry operator’s accreditation scheme be 
established and, if so, what should that scheme look like. For example, 
could compliance with existing RFCs and IETF standards be used as 
objective measures of technical capacity?
* Should other business operations criteria continue to be included in a 
registry operator’s application to ensure that any registry operator is 
adequately funded and professionally managed?

-- 

                        -rr








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                                            All life is an experiment.
                             The more experiments you make the better."
                         - Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Ross Rader
Director, Research & Innovation
Tucows Inc.
c. 416.828.8783

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