[ga] FYI: General Counsel 2nd WLS analysis

[Alexander Svensson <alexander@svensson.de>]

General Counsel's Second Analysis of VeriSign Global Registry Services' 
Request for Amendment to Registry Agreement 
(http://www.icann.org/minutes/report-vgrs-wls-22aug02.htm)

Excerpts:

  Should the VGRS be permitted to offer some form of WLS?

  [...]
  The approach followed in the case of .name [second-level domain e-mail
  service] suggests that the WLS should be allowed, thereby giving 
  consumers an additional option, provided there are appropriate 
  safeguards in place to prevent the registry operator from abusing 
  its sole-source position to the detriment of consumers.
  [...]

  If so, what conditions, if any, should be required?

  Assuming VGRS is permitted to offer some form of WLS, the question 
  arises what conditions (if any) should be required. In its report, the 
  DNSO task force suggested several, and some others have been agreed 
  by VGRS:

  1. The WLS should only be introduced after the Redemption Grace Period 
     is in place.  [...]
  2. No preferential treatment should be given to existing SnapNames 
     "SnapBack" reservations. [...]
  3. Avoidance of registrar preferences through advance knowledge of 
     deletion. [...]
  4. Transparency of reservations [...]
  5. Pricing [...]
     The price VGRS now proposes to charge for WLS reservations is US$24 
     per year (this is reduced from the US$40 it originally proposed), and 
     in view of the limited time of the trial, the uncertain volume of 
     reservations that will be sold, and need to amortize start-up costs 
     over one year, the proposed price appears to be plausibly cost-based 
     (accounting for the risk of limited consumer interest). [...]
   6. Trial period [...]

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