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Re: [ga] We can't be against it?
why not put the entire escrow in the EU- that way world data would benefit
from the EU's rules?
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
> Rick H Wesson wrote:
>
> >
> >... [ICANN] even created a specification for doing registrar data escrow;
> >however the spec was never passed back to the registrars and registrars
> >have never been requested to escrow their data, even though some have
> >asked to.
>
> In the early days of ICANN, when the testbed for the Registrars was
> established, the escrow procedures were discussed (March 1999, in
> Washington, DC, if I remember correctly).
> For those who remember, the model in effect was the "light Registry - heavy
> Registrar", therefore the data were mosly Registrars' data, not Registry's
> data.
> One of the 5 testbed Registrars raised the problem that EU policy prevented
> confidential business data to be exported to the US, and proposed a trusted
> third party in Europe, at least for data belonging to European Registrars.
> The proposal was vetoed: escrow data had to reside in the US.
> Since nobody (neither ICANN nor the Registrars) had any intention to let
> this high-visibility operation sink due to this "detail", the question was
> "forgotten".
> Obviously, if somebody wants ro re-vamp the issue, the problem will still
> remain: EU will oppose any attempt to keep escrow data of European companies
> (Registries or Registrars) outside Europe, and USG will attempt to force
> ICANN to have them in the US, and we will very likely stall again.
>
> >
> > > Meanwhile, back at the ranch, ICANN firmly agrees that most of the name
> >space
> > > should remain vulnerable to any registrar who decides to go nuts and
> >submit a
> > > large number of falsified registrar transfer requests...
> >
> >I don't think this is accurate, registrars have been working hard on the
> >transfer issue and just completed their first consensus document. We are
> >taking a vote on the document to see if we agree that it should go to the
> >NC.
> >
>
> Yep.
>
> Regards
> Roberto
>
>
>
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