RE: [registrars] Bylaw Request

["Elliot Noss" <enoss@tucows.com>]

Mike:

"If we were concerned about registries having access to information about
registrars business practices, does not TUCOWs having access to registrar
operations."

Without commenting on the rest of your suggestion, to compare a regulated
monopoly with which parties are required to contract in order to participate
in a market to a situation where parties freely enter into an arms-length
commercial agreement is comparing apples to turnips.

Regards

Elliot Noss
Tucows inc.
416-538-5494

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
> Behalf Of Michael D. Palage
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 11:17 AM
> To: registrars@dnso.org
> Subject: [registrars] Bylaw Request
>
>
> Hello All:
>
> One of the things that I raised during the drafting of the by-laws dealt
> with disclosure. I feel strongly that disclosure is more important that
> artificial restrictions on membership.
>
> I believe that ANY elected representative and their registrar
> employer MUST
> disclose all relationships with ICANN contracting parties.
> Hypothetically, I
> would submit that under this more broader disclosure requirement TUCOWS
> would have to disclose all those registrars that are using their Registrar
> ASP solution. If we were concerned about registries having access to
> information about registrars business practices, does not TUCOWs having
> access to registrar operations.
>
> I just find the various restrictions on membership and participation
> puzzling.
>
> Again I will repeat what I have been saying in the past. All ICANN
> accredited registrars should be provided a vote within the registrars
> constituency and should not have to pay for this privilege based upon the
> thousands of dollars they already pay ICANN. In order to ensure
> an open and
> transparent constituency every elected represent and their representative
> registrar must disclose all relationships with ICANN contracting parties.
>
> Without these two principles I see any by-law revision as being fatally
> flawed.
>
> Mike
>