Re: [alac] Board Meeting

[John L <johnl@xxxxxxxx>]

> >        * <http://www.icann.org/minutes/secretarys-notice-27sep06.htm>Board 
> > Inquiry Responses
> >        * <http://www.icann.org/announcements/afilias-to-icann.pdf>Afilias 
> > Response
> >        * <http://www.icann.org/announcements/pir-to-icann-10oct06.pdf>PIR's 
> > Response
> >        * 
> > <http://www.icann.org/announcements/neuStar-to-icann-10oct06.pdf>Neulevel 
> > Response
>
> Has anyone reviewed the registries responses to see whether they address the 
> concerns ALAC raised?
> I like PIR's response, which suggests adding explicit uniform pricing 
> language to the contract (and I think PIR's language is better than 
> Neustar's, though I haven't reviewed them in depth).

The suggested language in all three letters appears to be identical. 
Gosh, I wonder how that happened.  It seems OK to me.

> >    * Discussion of New Proposed Registry Service by PIR - Excess Deletion 
> > Fee
> <http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/PIR_request.pdf>
> Looks like a response to the domain tasting by charging a fee for add-grace 
> deletes.

Registrars that cancel over 90% of new registrations in .ORG would have to 
pay 5 cents per cancelled domain.  On page 11 of this document it says 
"Recently PIR raised the proposal with members of ALAC, but there has been 
no feedback from ALAC."

Does anyone recall this discussion?  I don't.  It seems like a good idea 
to me, both reducing the instability from speculative name churn and 
starting to recover the costs.  If it were me, I'd be a dollar if you 
cancel more than 10%, but I'll take what I can get.

R's,
John