[council] VeriSign WLS

[Louis Touton <touton@icann.org>]

To the Names Council:

At its meeting on 28 June 2002, the ICANN Board adopted the resolution 
shown below concerning VeriSign's request to implement a wait-listing
service, for a fee.  As you will note, the Board took note of VeriSign's
constructive proposal, presented at the Public Forum on 27 June, to
amend its offering in various respects to address concerns raised by the
interim report of the DNSO Transfers Task Force.  The Board believes it
would benefit by having the final recommendations of the Names Council 
(considering the substantial revisions proposed by VeriSign to address
the concerns that have been raised) before deciding, and has requested 
the report be submitted by 26 July so that the Board may act shortly 
thereafter. 

Best regards,

Louis Touton
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Wait-Listing Service Proposal

Whereas, on 21 March 2002 VeriSign, Inc., the operator of the .com and
.net registries, requested amendments to the registry agreements for
those top-level domains to allow it to conduct a twelve-month trial of a
proposed wait-listing service (WLS) to be offered through accredited
registrars for an annual fee;

Whereas, in resolution 02.53 the Board requested 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 a status report on that review, with the status
report to include any recommendations concerning VeriSign's request to
modify the .com and .net agreements to allow it to provide the WLS;

Whereas, the DNSO's Transfers Task Force presented to the Board a status
report giving preliminary findings and recommendations on WLS, but
requiring additional analysis and discussion within the DNSO before the
report is finalized;

Whereas, as contemplated by resolution 02.55 ICANN has received various
public comments on the WLS on a web-based public comment forum;

Whereas, a Public Forum was held on 27 June 2002 at ICANN's meetings in
Bucharest, during which VeriSign gave a presentation of the WLS in which
it constructively proposed changes to accommodate concerns expressed in
community comments; the DNSO Transfers Task Force summarized its
preliminary findings and recommendations; and several members of the
Internet community gave their views on WLS;

Whereas, the Board, although very anxious to ensure that action on
VeriSign's request proceeds without unnecessary delay, believes that its
consideration of the request would be assisted by receiving the final
report of the DNSO's bottom-up consensus-development effort, including
its views on the modifications recently proposed by VeriSign;

Resolved [02.84] that the Names Council is requested to provide, no
later than 26 July 2002, its final recommendations, with its supporting
rationale and any separate positions of DNSO constituencies, on the
VeriSign WLS request (including the modifications made on 27 June 2002),
so that the Board may act shortly thereafter.