[council] Regarding deletes recommendations

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au>]

Hello All,
 
As a reference point for discussion of the deletes task force
recommendations, here is a clause from the current registrar
accreditation agreement:
 
From: http://www.icann.org/registrars/ra-agreement-17may01.htm
 
"3.7.5 Registrar shall register Registered Names to Registered Name
Holders only for fixed periods. At the conclusion of the registration
period, failure by or on behalf of the Registered Name Holder to pay a
renewal fee within the time specified in a second notice or reminder
shall, in the absence of extenuating circumstances, result in
cancellation of the registration. In the event that ICANN adopts a
specification or policy concerning procedures for handling expiration of
registrations, Registrar shall abide by that specification or policy."
 
It is interesting that the clause mentions:
- a renewal fee
- extenuating circumstances
 
The problem is that while it specifies that a registration should be
cancelled, it doesn't say by when.
 
Before voting on the deletes task force recommendations, it seems
appropriate to take the recommendations and review them against the
existing contractual wording and also seek some further focussed input
from a group of registrars  and registries to examine how the
recommendations would be implemented (flushing out extentuating
circumstances and methods for dealing with them).  It seems that the
implementation committee process used for transfers and WHOIS was
successful at doing this, and the council may wish to consider using
this process again.  The implementation committees involved
representatives from the task force, and the task forces took into
account input from the implementation committees before finally
presenting their reports to the council for voting.  Both the final
WHOIS and Transfers Reports benefited from this final step.  
 
Regards,
Bruce Tonkin