[nc-transfer] TOR: RC Draft
All, I have taken Milton's suggestions and made a few modifications that I believe put this document much closer to completion. I have taken the liberty of doing a redline of the original Cade draft and the Mueller draft. I then blue-lined my changes against the Mueller draft. For convenience, please find both a redline version and a clean version attached to this message in MS-DOC format- ASCII text follows the body of this message below. Specifics I'm not sure that I am completely happy with the modifications that I've made to sections 5 & 6 - my intent may not be clear. The purpose of the modifications to these two sections were made to clarify the consensus policy approach that we are taking. If my modifications are inconsistent with the by-laws, lets talk further as I made these edits in order to ensure closer synchronicity with the terms of the by-laws. You will also notice that I picked some arbitrary dates in section 6. I have no real preference as to the specific dates but also realize that sooner or later we are going to need to pick some concrete deadlines. If these are achievable, lets try and leave them in, if not, lets discuss further and modify appropriately. A reasonable body of work has already been completed concerning point #3 below - I hope to have most of these items collected and synthesized by Monday at which point I will start forwarding more concrete thoughts to the list for further discussion. My only concern about the TOR is that they may be to broad. I would like to discuss this with the TF further. If we hope to achieve our work roughly according to the schedule below, we may have to be more specific in setting our goals up-front. Comments/questions, as always, welcomed. -rwr t.416.538.5492 nctf-transfers-tor-draft-v0r0d4-112901 Terms of Reference for the Names Council Task Force on Transfers The purpose of the Task Force on Transfers is to: 1. Develop understanding across the Names Council of the issues and existing policies underlying and governing the transfer of domain names between registrars; 2. Develop a broader understanding of the procedures for transferring sponsorship of domain names domain names as described by the Registrar Constituency's procedural document, which has been voted on by the Registrar Constituency; 3. Identify any issues not addressed by the Registrar Constituency's document and develop appropriate task force processes to ensure that these outstanding issues are addressed in a timely manner that reflects the input of all affected stakeholders; 4. Identify relevant policy issues raised by the transfer of domain names between registrars in a shared registry system environment, and develop recommendations to define an appropriate policy; 5. Formulate and present specific recommendations to the Names Council that provides guidance to the ICANN Board of Directors concerning the amendment of the existing contractual agreements, where such changes are needed to correct any identified clauses that require policy guidance or clarification should the Names Council determine that consensus support for the recommendations exist as specified in section 2.d of the ICANN Bylaws; 6. Follow the timetable agreed to at the Marina del Rey DNSO Names Council meeting: publish an interim report no later than January 28, 2002 and a completed report for submission by the Names Council to the Constituencies for comment and consultation by March 1, 2002. nctf-transfers-tor-draft-v0r0d4-112901-redline.doc nctf-transfers-tor-draft-v0r0d4-112901.doc |