[registrars] Statement XXX agreement

[Ross Rader]

as do we.

On 8-Mar-07, at 5:45 PM, Ward Benjamin wrote:

>
> 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
>> --
>> 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
>> 1&1 Internet AG
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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

Ross Rader
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