[alac] [Fwd: Re: [icann-board] Registrant-reseller issues]

[Annette Muehlberg <annette.muehlberg@xxxxxx>]

All,
we, Steve, Vittorio and myself had a short discussion on registrant-reseller 
issues
and would like to get your inputs on them - also in respect of preparing the 
ICANN meeting in Lisboa.

Best wishes
Annette


> Steve Crocker schrieb:
> > Vittorio and Annette,
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > I don't have a detailed agenda in mind, and I think you've covered  
> > the main ideas. ICANN cannot directly regulate or respond to every  
> > detail, so I think it's essential for improvements to come from  
> > education and community pressure, not just contracts and  
> > enforcement. A balance is needed.
> >
> > I think the key first step is to identify the things that go wrong  
> > and the improvements we'd like to see. Whenever possible, I'd  
> > suggest keeping this separate from specific proposals about how to  
> > cause those improvements to happen. Once we have a common  
> > understanding and consensus on the destination, we can have good  
> > discussions about how best to get there. For example, to take the  
> > case you have dealt with, an end-user discovered she(?) did not  
> > actually have control of the domain name, and I imagine you would  
> > like to see such situations reduced or eliminated. Or, perhaps,  
> > simply made very clear so the end-user understands the situation  
> > and knows what the rules are. That's the "destination." "Routes"  
> > to get there might be via contract and enforcement, or might be  
> > via large scale education and publicity, or might involve a  
> > combination. Or perhaps yet other ideas beyond these two.
> >
> > I look forward to further interaction.
> >
> > Since we are discussing here the potential for joint work with the  
> > SSAC, I will take the liberty of sending a copy to the SSAC list.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> > Steve Crocker
> > steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
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> >
> >
> > On Jan 22, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> >
> > > Steve Crocker ha scritto:
> > > > Let me take this opportunity to make you a specific offer.  
> > > > Within SSAC we are now looking for opportunities to work  
> > > > together with other groups on matters which are of interest to  
> > > > the other group and which have a security and/or stability  
> > > > component. We are currently working closely with the Root Server  
> > > > System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) on a technically complex  
> > > > matter of adding IPv6 addresses to the root zone for the root  
> > > > servers. This is working out very well, and I am eager to  
> > > > partner with other groups. We are quite open to working with the  
> > > > ALAC -- or other groups -- in a joint effort to improve the  
> > > > safety of the marketplace for registrants. If this is of  
> > > > interest, let's lay the groundwork for substantive interaction  
> > > > when we're all together in Portugal in March.
> > >
> > > I have forwarded your offer to the rest of the ALAC, and there is  
> > > consensus that it would be good to meet in Lisbon and to discuss  
> > > what we could do together, and maybe even prepare the matter  
> > > before. I am now copying this message to Annette Muehlberg, who  
> > > is the current Chair of the ALAC, so that you might get in touch  
> > > and arrange something.
> > >
> > > I don't know whether you had specific ideas, but perhaps we could  
> > > work on a common proposal about things that ICANN could do to  
> > > help registrants achieve better protection, ranging from best  
> > > practices to new contractual requirements to registrars and  
> > > through them to resellers. Perhaps we could start an email loop  
> > > among subgroups, or open a specific mailing list, or... what else?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > --vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <--------
> > > --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------