[council] Referral to DNSO: Deletes and VeriSign WLS Application
As agreed on the NC call yesterday the Transfers task force
has been charged with making a recommendation to the NC on this issue. I request
the TF to make such a recommendation in time to allow NC discussion and fulfil
the requested 10 June 2002 deadline.
Philip
NC Chair
----- Original Message -----
From: Louis Touton
To: council@dnso.org
Sent: 24 April 2002 02:11
Subject: [council] Referral to DNSO: Deletes and VeriSign WLS
Application For the past several months, various interrelated issues have emerged concerning the deletion process for domain names in the gTLDs. Based on the discussion at the Names Council's 14 February meeting, the DNSO Transfers Task Force organized a very informative presentation at Accra, during which various deletes and tranfers topics (redemption grace period, VeriSign WLS proposal, transfer mechanisms, etc.) were discussed. At the Names Council meeting in Accra, Marilyn Cade, the chair of the task force, and Alexander Svensson, Alternate GA Chair, reported on this presentiation. On 21 March 2002, VeriSign Global Registry Services requested that ICANN amend the .com and .net registry agreements to allow it to provide a wait-listing service (WLS), for a fee and on a sole-source basis, as part of its operation of those registries. The specific request is posted at <http://www.icann.org/nsi/vgrs-wls-proposal-20mar02.pdf>. ICANN posted a General Counsel's analysis of the VeriSign WLS request <http://www.icann.org/minutes/report-vgrs-wls-17apr02.htm>, which recommended that the ICANN Board invite DNSO and public comment on policy concerns raised by the request. VeriSign submitted a response to that analysis, which is posted at <http://www.icann.org/minutes/response-vgrs-wls-21apr02.htm>. At its meeting on 22 April 2002, the ICANN Board adopted a resolution inviting "community comment on the [VeriSign WLS] request, and particularly on policy concerns raised by the request that would harm the legitimate interests of others." In addition, the Board concluded that, to the extent feasible, the evaluation regarding the VeriSign WLS should be made in the context of an analysis of solutions to the broader set of problems that have arisen in the deletes area. In this regard, the Board resolution made the following referral to the DNSO: Resolved [02.53] that the Board requests the Names Council to coordinate within the DNSO a comprehensive review of issues concerning the deletion of domain names and possible solutions for those issues and to submit to the Board, no later than 10 June 2002, a status report on that review, with the status report to include any recommendations (with supporting materials) concerning VeriSign's request to modify the .com and .net agreements to allow it to provide a wait-listing service, for a fee, as part of its operation of the .com and .net registries . . . . The complete set of resolutions on the VeriSign WLS Request is posted at <http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-22apr02.htm#VeriSignWLSProposal>. Please feel free to direct any questions you have regarding the above referral to me. In its resolutions, the Board also called on the ICANN staff to establish a mechanism to receive comments submitted by the public over the Internet, which we expect to set up in the next several days. Louis Touton ICANN Secretary |