RE: [ga] Contemplated Registry Fees

["L. Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>]

On 20 Feb 2003 at 11:27, Neuman, Jeff wrote:

> Let me make the following points:
> 
<snip>

> 2)  In a transfer dispute, how can the Registry be at fault?  The Registry
> merely takes a commands from the gaining and/or losing registrars.  It has
> no interaction with the Registrant in the Transfer process.

If there is little or no cooperation from registrars, registries should 
have to step in and make corrections to errors as a last resort within a 
reasonable period of time - perhaps days.

> 
> 3)  Would you rather that third parties handle all disputes and that the
> Registries stay completely out of it?  In the Transfers Task Force work,
> the registries agreed to have limited involvement in trying to resolve
> disputes (so long as their costs were covered).  Are you saying that if the
> registries step in (to help resolve a dispute - to help registrants and
> registrars) that we should take on liability.  If that is the case, no
> registry in their right mind would step in.

Registries are the where the buck stops.  They have the registrations and 
have final control over how the domains perform (TLD server).  As such, if 
there is a dispute where the problem lies with the system or registrar 
error, the registry should have the responsibility of correcting the error 
whether the registrar cooperates or not.  

Your comment that no registry in its right mind would step in is the 
problem.  If there were penalites for harming the registrant due to lack 
of cooperation when there has been an error in the system or registrar, 
perhaps registries would have to pay a little more attention to the 
process.

I agree that the initial problem would lie with the registrar, but there 
has to be a fall back to the registry when registrars simply say "no."  
What is the role of the registry?  Are they to sit back and just collect 
fees for maintaining servers and databases with no responsibility to the 
registrant at all?

Leah
> 
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