[registrars] Statement XXX agreement

[Paul Goldstone]

Tom,

Thanks for putting this together.

Domain-it!, Inc. agrees with your statement.

"Herby" should be switched to "Hereby".

~Paul


At 10:14 AM 3/8/2007, 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
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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