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It was nice seeing some of you in the last ICANN meeting.<BR>
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I have a question about the whois issue that i may ask to </SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11.0px'>Jordan Buchanan but if someone can help it would be good.<BR>
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As you know, the whois task force is up to make a choice between few diofferent models of multilevel access to the whois database containing perosnal informations.<BR>
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BTW, only an accredited registrar can access to the whois personal datas. But, if we consider that a spammer or phisher can use many ways to access to these infos, he can just apply and become an icann registrar and get the full infos of everybody from the database !<BR>
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Am i wrong ?<BR>
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Jordan interview is here : <a href="http://www.domaine.info/content/view/1310/193/">http://www.domaine.info/content/view/1310/193/</a><BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>De : </B>Bhavin Turakhia <bhavin.t@logicboxes.com><BR>
<B>Date : </B>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:47:15 +0530<BR>
<B>À : </B>"'Nevett, Jonathon'" <jnevett@networksolutions.com>, 'Registrars Constituency' <registrars@gnso.icann.org><BR>
<B>Objet : </B>RE: [registrars] FW: RRA Changes<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="100%"> </FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma"><B>From:</B> owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org [<a href="mailto:owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org]">mailto:owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org]</a> <B>On Behalf Of </B>Bhavin.t@logicboxes.com<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:39 AM<BR>
<B>To:</B> 'Nevett, Jonathon'; 'Registrars Constituency'<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> RE: [registrars] FW: RRA Changes<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT FACE="Arial">do let us know any updates you recv from them ... we are putting ours on a stall too until an update<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT FACE="Arial">thanks for your note<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="100%"> </FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma"><B>From:</B> owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org [<a href="mailto:owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org]">mailto:owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org]</a> <B>On Behalf Of </B>Nevett, Jonathon<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:17 PM<BR>
<B>To:</B> Registrars Constituency<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> [registrars] FW: RRA Changes<BR>
<B>Importance:</B> High<BR>
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</FONT></SPAN><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>All: I just sent this note to VeriSign. I hope that VeriSign will handle this issue shortly, but we are waiting until it is resolved before taking any action with the draft agreement. Thanks. Jon<BR>
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<B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:35 AM<BR>
<B>To:</B> Dahlquist, Raynor<BR>
<B>Cc:</B> 'mshull@verisign.com'; 'Gomes, Chuck'; kurt.pritz@icann.org<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> RRA Changes<BR>
<B>Importance:</B> High<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>We received a letter yesterday from VeriSign dated December 6th requesting that we execute an attached copy of the new Registry-Registrar Agreement for the .com regsitry. The letter states that the agreement provided is “the new ICANN approved .COM Registry-Registrar Agreement that will take effect and supersede your existing .COM Registry-Registrar Agreement with VeriSign, Inc on 30 December 2006.” <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>In the abundance of caution, we compared the copy of the agreement attached to the letter with the agreement actually approved by the ICANN Board and the U.S. Department of Commerce as Exhibit 8 to the .com Registry Agreement (<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><a href="http://www.icann.org/topics/vrsn-settlement/revised-appendix8-clean-29jan06.pdf">http://www.icann.org/topics/vrsn-settlement/revised-appendix8-clean-29jan06.pdf</a></FONT>), and there are both substantive and non-substantive differences between the version VeriSign sent to us for execution and the version approved by ICANN and the DOC. These changes include adding various VeriSign-affiliated parties to the agreement. <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>I brought this situation to ICANN’s attention. According to Kurt Pritz, ICANN was aware of VeriSign’s request to ICANN to make the substantive and non-substantive changes, but stated in no uncertain terms that ICANN has not “approved or adopted” any changes to the RRA as required in Section 6.1. Therefore, VeriSign’s statement that ICANN approved the version of the agreement sent to us is false. Moreover, not only did VeriSign misrepresent that it received ICANN approval to change the agreement, it also failed to inform registrars of the changes from the version posted on the ICANN website. <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>I find it remarkable that VeriSign would try to change the terms of the RRA in this manner, regardless of the substance of the changes. This kind of behavior is unacceptable and violates the terms and spirit of our relationship. Indeed, we should be trying to engage in a period of healing after the long and sometimes bitter dispute over the advisability of the new .com registry agreement. Instead, VeriSign apparently is engaging in deceptive and obfuscating behavior.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>First, please let me know how you plan on rectifying this situation. Second, we should discuss a procedure for making future changes to the .com and .net RRAs so we don’t continue to repeat this same scenario every few years. As per the terms of the contract, ICANN must approve any changes to the agreement. As a transparent organization, ICANN should give the other party to the agreement – the registrars – an opportunity to review and comment on proposed changes before they are approved. It is irrelevant whether VeriSign or ICANN believes that such changes are substantive. Any changes to a contract to which registrars are a party should be shared with us before they are approved. <FONT COLOR="#000080"> </FONT>Something that may appear to be benign to ICANN or VeriSign might have some unintended consequence to other parties to the agreement. Third, if VeriSign does seek to change certain provisions of the agreement from the version ICANN and the DOC recently approved, I suggest that it seek to delete Section 6.15(a)(6), which still refers to a Surety Instrument that VeriSign removed from all other parts of the contract.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>I look forward to hearing back from you.<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>Jonathon L. Nevett<BR>
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