Re: [ga] WLS Suggestion

[Karl Auerbach <karl@CaveBear.com>]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Kristy McKee wrote:

> If this WLS process must be implemented, why not offer the Domain Name 
> Registrant the "opportunity" to pay more money per year to ensure that they 
> also have claim to their domain(s) within the WLS database.

Presumably under WLS they have that - they simply buy into WLS.

I have a question for you (and everyone on the GA list):

I've been wrestling back and forth on the WLS issue.  I don't like giving
NSI/Verisign yet another boon but I also don't like ICANN being a
regulator of ever increasing size.

This is a tough question and there are equities on all sides.

My feeling is that I at the board meeting tomorrow morning that I will
vote in favor of WLS but only on the condition that there are provisions
that require the current registrant to know of the existance (and
identity) of WLS entries placed on his/here domain name.  That, to my
mind, helps restore the balance of information and lets all parties to the
registration agreement attempt to optimize their actions.

(It may not be black letter contract law, but I do feel that those who are
parties to a contract ought not to be unreasonably manipulative of one
another - particularly when the contracts are of an adhesive quality [and
more particularly when the public isn't allowed onto the regulatory body
that establishes many of the contractual terms].  And in the case of WLS I
have always found it distasteful that the registry, who has an indirect
contractual relationship with the registrant, might hold back information
from the registrant that could be of value to the registrant.)

This condition on the casting of my vote in favor is in addition to things
like the pre-existance of the grace period mechanisms for at least 6
months, etc etc.)

Any comments?

		--karl--





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