[registrars] Statement XXX agreement

[Ward Benjamin]

Tom,

Thanks for taking the initiative.

GMO Internet agrees with the statement.

Thanks,
Ben


Thomas Keller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I drafted a statement in regard to the XXX agreement we can use
> in response to the public comment period which ends tomorrow.
> 
> As I'm not sure if we can post this as an offical constituency statement
> I would suggest that people that are interested in supporting the
> statement just sign on to it and that I will post it as an individual 
> comment tomorrow evening European time.
> 
> Suggestions to the wording are welcomed ;)
> 
> Best,
> 
> tom
> 
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> 
> Herby we would like to raise our concerns in respect to a paragraph of the
> Proposed ICM Registry Agreement for .XXX Appendix S, Part 6, Public Whois 
> Specification which reads as follows:
> 
> Registrars will be required to participate in the operation of a cross-registry
> WHOIS database, which will provide searching capabilities and access to all 
> information concerning domain name registrations regardless of which TLD the
> domain name is registered in or which registrar processed the domain name 
> application.
> 
> The requirement resulting out of this paragraph is out of scope for this
> agreement as it stands in no direct relation to the operations of the 
> XXX registry.
> 
> It is our believe that substantial new and generic obligations to registrars 
> should in any case be subject to the consensus policy process as mandated by the
> Registrar Accreditation Agreement (http://www.icann.org/registrars/ra-agreement-17may01.htm) 
> which is designed to implement such new policies in a open and transparent way.
> 
> As the paragraph in question establishes a new and generic obligation for registrars
> we have to object to the inclusion of this paragraph in the final verion of the
> XXX Registry Agreement.
> 
> Signatories
> ...
> --
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas Keller
> 
> Domain Services
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> Amtsgericht Montabaur HRB 6484
> 
> Vorstand: Henning Ahlert, Hans-Henning Doerr, Ralph Dommermuth, Matthias Ehrlich
> Andreas Gauger, Matthias Greve, Robert Hoffmann, Achim Weiss
> Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Michael Scheeren
> 
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