RE: [nc-transfer] Deletions Issue (outside our mandate)

["Neuman, Jeff" <Jeff.Neuman@neustar.us>]

I could not disagree more.  That is just not the case.  In fact, once a terms of reference is drafted, I can promise you that our constituency can pick a rep within 5 days.  It will take longer for our group to finish the transfers work and then start the deletions work, than it would be to start a new task force.  The other thing is that your e-mail assumes that we, the Task Force can choose what issues we address.  That is not the case.  Only the Names Council may authorize what we can address.

 

We may have tangentially touched on an issue, but it would not take that long to convene a task force on deletions.  Again, I will state for the record that if we discuss those issues, neither Christine nor I will be able to participate and I would like to nominate others from my constituency to take on that work.

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Subject: RE: [nc-transfer] Deletions Issue (outside our mandate)

If deletions are outside our mandate, (which I am not sure it is given its intimite relationship with WLS that we were commissioned to study), it is recommended that the Names Council be requested to expand our mandate to include deletions.  It makes no sense to convene a new Task Force to start from scratch when this Task Force has already discussed and considered many of the issues relating to deletions, including at least one proposal concerning establishment of a uniform deletions policy.

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From: Neuman, Jeff [mailto:Jeff.Neuman@neustar.us]
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Subject: [nc-transfer] Deletions Issue (outside our mandate)

All,

 

On the last two calls we have been talking about whether we should address the many issues surrounding domain name deletions in the "TRANSFER Task Force."  Let me again reiterate that as important I believe that issue is to the Internet community, the TRANSFERS Task Force is not the appropriate body to be working on that issue (or those issues....actually I am not sure what the issues we would be looking at would be).

 

The point is clear.  There are rules that have been set out by the Names Council on the operation of Task Forces (and there will be different ones in the new GNSO that we are working on), but the fact remains that a Task Force is convened for a narrow purpose and may not exceed that scope without a formal recommendation from the Names Council regardless of how bad we want to address the issue.  As inconvenient or time consuming as this process may be, we must follow these rules.  The Deletions issues may indeed need to go to a Task Force.  But that is a decision for the Names Council and not for us.

 

We have a tough job to do, and that is to draft a report on Transfers.  We have to buckle down and get that done.  I implore each of you to recommend that we refer the deletions issues to the Names Council to convene a different task force to address this subject.  Neither Christine nor I were selected by my constituency to represent them on deletions. 

 

Personally, I am not sure I have the time to address those issues on a Task Force.  So, I am putting everyone on the group on notice, that if we start addressing those issues, neither Christine nor I are authorized to speak on behalf of the constituency.  Please try to understand that I am not doing this to be difficult, but rather because I (like a lot of people on this committee) am extremely busy and do not feel that I can devote the time that is needed to address the "DELETIONS" issue. 

 

I remain faithfully committed, however, to finishing the work on the Transfers.

Thanks.

 

Jeffrey J. Neuman, Esq.
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