RE: [registrars] Washington Meeting - Draft Agenda

["Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>]

> Mike - thanks for planning a comprehensive agenda.  In an 
> effort to maximize the productiveness of this meeting (and go 
> beyond just discussion), I'd suggest that we ask for 
> registrars who will attend to volunteer to champion each of 
> the agenda items.  (I would expect that for each, there's 
> someone who's been most active on the list).  This person 
> should send out goals, action items to be decided, or 
> questions to be answered for his or her designated topic.  
> That way, we will try to end the meeting with decisions and actions.

I fully support this approach. Its very important to me from a planning
and resource allocation perspective that we go into these meetings with
a very clear idea of what we as an organization can hope to achieve. 

Further to this, I would like to donate the hour allocated to transfers
and apply it to the By-laws and Structure portion of the agenda. First
off, I have no news from a task force perspective. I can provide
slightly more detail in a separate email, but suffice to say, we waiting
for the Names Council to approve our recommendations before we proceed
with next steps. Secondly, there are a number of sub-topics that have
all been lumped together under the canopy of "bylaws". I would like to
see more time devoted to the discussion of each of these sub-issues as
the conclusions we draw will define our constituency at a very
fundamental level.

Thanks for getting the ball rolling with the draft agenda Mike. This is
a great starting point.

                       -rwr




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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org 
> [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org] On Behalf Of Elana Broitman
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:36 PM
> To: Michael D. Palage; registrars@dnso.org
> Subject: RE: [registrars] Washington Meeting - Draft Agenda 
> 
> 
> Mike - thanks for planning a comprehensive agenda.  In an 
> effort to maximize the productiveness of this meeting (and go 
> beyond just discussion), I'd suggest that we ask for 
> registrars who will attend to volunteer to champion each of 
> the agenda items.  (I would expect that for each, there's 
> someone who's been most active on the list).  This person 
> should send out goals, action items to be decided, or 
> questions to be answered for his or her designated topic.  
> That way, we will try to end the meeting with decisions and actions.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Elana
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael D. Palage [mailto:michael@palage.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 11:36 AM
> To: registrars@dnso.org
> Subject: [registrars] Washington Meeting - Draft Agenda 
> Importance: High
> 
> 
> Listed below is the draft agenda of the Registrar/Registry 
> meeting scheduled for next Friday February 21st in 
> Washington, DC. I have compiled this agenda based upon 
> various inputs from registrars over the past couple of weeks. 
> If there are any other suggestions please bring them to my 
> attention. Any issues that can not be addressed during this 
> meeting will be followed up during the Rio meeting scheduled 
> for March.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 8:15 - 8:30 (closed session Registrars only) State of the Constituency
> 
> This will be a brief introduction of registrars in attendance 
> along with a roll-call of currently paid members with full 
> voting rights.
> 
> 
> 8:30 - 9:30 (closed session Registrars only) By-law Discussion
> 
> There will be a discussion of the new Registrar Constituency 
> by-laws that must be submitted and approved by ICANN. In 
> light of the ICANN reform which no longer requires the 
> constituency to pay for its Names Council representatives, 
> the constituency is at a cross roads for where it would like 
> to go. Currently we have in excess of $20,000 on account with 
> only $10,000 of expensed committed so far ($2,500 DC meeting, 
> $5,000 ICANN fees (last payment), and $2,500 registrar 
> software). To date the registrar constituency has collected 
> no dues for 2003.
> 
> Moving forward the registrar constituency needs to decide 
> whether it would like to continue to operate in a low cost 
> environment or whether it would like to become more like a 
> professional trade association. In the past I have personally 
> opposed retaining paid staff, incorporating, etc. However, 
> there have been several registrars that have raised these 
> possibilities with me again and I think it would be 
> beneficial to discuss the merits of these options.
> 
> Also for discussion during this session will be the proposal 
> made by Ross in connection with membership participation and 
> Tom in connection with a policy framework for raising and 
> advancing policy issues within the constituency.
> 
> 9:30 - 9:55 Consideration for Registration Authorities 
> Conducting Business in the European Union (open registrars/registry)
> 
> I attended a workshop in Berlin, Germany last week and there 
> were a number of panels dealing with issues that directly 
> impact all registrars conducting business within the European 
> Union. I will try to provide a brief summary of these laws 
> and how they potentially impact your business if you transact 
> business with individuals and/or businesses in the EU.
> 
> - Effective July 1, 2003 non-EU registrars must start 
> charging Value Added Tax (VAT) to all transactions with 
> consumers in the EU. Current EU VAT rates range from 13% to 
> 25%. In addition registrars must register with a tax 
> authortity in one of the EU member states.
> - EU Directive 95/46/EC: deals with data privacy laws that 
> are currently in effect.
> - EU Directive 02/58/EC; This directive goes into effect 
> October 2003 and provides additional e-commerce regulation 
> including among other things the use of "cookies" on websites;
> 
> 
> 9:55 - 10:15 Review and Summary of FTC Workshop on Cross 
> Border Fraud (open
> registrars/registry)
> 
> This will provide a brief summary of the two day work shop on 
> cross border fraud. A number of registrars have stated that 
> they will not be able to attend the workshop. The key focus 
> will be on credit card and whois issues.
> 
> 
> 10:15 - 11:00 Credit Card Charge Backs (open registrar/registry)
> 
> This will be a discussion among the participants to discuss 
> the impact of credit card fraud within the domain name 
> registration industry and what if any steps can be taken 
> among registration authorities (registrars and
> registries) to mitigate this problem.
> 
> 11:00 - 12:00 Update on the Whois Task Force
> 
> This will be an update on the ICANN Whois Task Force final 
> report, and how it potentially impacts registrars. Bruce 
> Tonkin's proposal will also be discussed at this time and how 
> it should be incorporated into any implementation policy. I 
> have also learned a rumor that Senator Burn's is considering 
> introducing a Spam bill that will have a provision providing 
> third parties a cause of action against people that provide 
> false or inaccurate whois information. I am trying to obtain 
> a mark-up of this draft legislation since it could 
> potentially impacts all registrations authorities.
> 
> 12:30 - 1:30 Catered Lunch (Registrars and Registries)
> 
> 
> 1:30- 2:30 Transfers
> 
> Ross will provide the latest update on the transfer 
> implementation work.
> 
> 2:30 - 3:00 Auto Delete
> 
> Tim Ruiz will provide an update on the auto-delete task 
> force, and we will collectively try to identify any potential 
> bugs to prevent the RGP billing bug from reoccurring.
> 
> 3:00 - 3:30 Redemption Grace Period
> 
> Registrars and registries will try to discuss the problems 
> encountered by registrars with the RGP, and see if there is a 
> mutually acceptable framework for modifying the current 
> policy and reinstating the 5 day non-billable grace period.
> 
> 3:30 - 4:00 IDN Primer
> 
> Andrew McLaughlin gave an excellent non-technical primer on 
> IDNs to illustrate the potential complex policy issues 
> surrounding IDNs. I am trying to obtain a copy of these 
> slides to use in during this time slot.
> 
> 4:00 - 5:30 Registry Presentations
> 
> A number of registries that are co-sponsoring this event have 
> various technical updates that they want to provide to 
> registrars, i.e. RegistryPro is preparing for launch, PIR 
> will be switching over to a thick EPP 7.0 version; NeuStar 
> has some updates on .CN and .US; VeriSign has some new market 
> research that it would like to share.
> 
> 
> 
> To date I have had approximately 20 registrar participants 
> confirm there participation and approximately 10 registry 
> participants. The hotel has extended the time period to 
> receive the discount room rate. I would encourage all to take 
> advantage of this rate which is around $100 a night cheaper 
> than other hotels.
> 
> Any questions let me know.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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