FW: [registrars] Fw: [council] ICANN Board Action on WLS

["Patricio Valdes" <valdes@parava.net>]

Attn. Louis Touton,

In your email below you state the following:

"the Board drew heavily from the advice developed by the task force's
efforts"

If Im not mistaken, the Task Force's primary Recommendation was to Deny the
WLS!

I would like your personal opinion as to why the WLS was approved by ICANN.

Second, why is it, that more important issues, like Domain Transfers which
clearly affect Verisign more than any otehr Registrar have gone without a
resolution for 18 months?

Thank you for your time.


Patricio Valdes
Parava Networks




----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Touton" <touton@icann.org>
To: <council@dnso.org>
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 2:21 PM
Subject: [council] ICANN Board Action on WLS


> To the Names Council:
>
> This morning the ICANN Board met to consider VeriSign's 21 March 2002
> request for certain amendments to the .com and .net registry services to
> permit the offering of a Wait Listing Service for a fee.  As you are
> aware, in response to the Board's earlier request the DNSO gave advice
> on various aspects of the VeriSign request.
>
> At this morning's meeting, the ICANN Board authorized the ICANN
> President and General Counsel to conduct negotiations with VeriSign
> toward appropriate revisions to the .com and .net registry agreements to
> provide for the offering of a wait-listing service as proposed by
> VeriSign, with six additional conditions.  As you will note from the
> resolution, the Board drew heavily from the advice developed by the task
> force's efforts, which it found to be very helpful in establishing the
> conditions.  The Board is grateful to the Names Council and the task
> force for coordinating this work.
>
> The resolution adopted is posted at
>
<http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-23aug02.htm#VeriSignWLSProposal>
>
> I'd like to add my personal thanks to those of the Board for the hard
> work and constructive advice that the Names Council, task force, and
> DNSO participants gave on this issue.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Louis Touton
>
>