[bc-gnso] .net renewal - informational posting from ICANN

["Marilyn Cade " <marilynscade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-11apr11-en.htm


Public Comment: Proposal for Renewal of the .NET Registry Agreement11 April 2011

ICANN has posted  a proposed draft renewal agreement for the operation of the 
.NET registry. The current .NET Registry Agreement is due to expire on 30 June 
2011.ICANN's gTLD registry agreements provide for presumptive renewal so long 
as certain requirements are met. The agreements also provide that upon renewal, 
changes may be made in the agreement to render the terms similar to other 
comparable agreements. 

The proposed renewal agreement from Verisign includes modified provisions to 
bring the .NET agreement into line with other comparable agreements (e.g. BIZ, 
COM, INFO, ORG), including terms such as traffic data, limitation of liability, 
indemnification, assignment, and notice provisions.In addition to the changes 
to bring .NET into conformance with other agreements, 

Verisign has requested a change to give more flexibility for the registry to 
take action to prevent the registration of particular domain names when 
necessary in order to protect the security and stability of the DNS and the 
Internet - such as the actions that were taken by Verisign and other registries 
in coordination with ICANN in order to mitigate the threat from the Conficker 
virus.

One other significant change to the agreement would give the registry operator 
more flexibility to offer training, technical support, marketing or incentive 
programs for the purpose of supporting the development of the Internet in 
underserved markets.The appendices to the agreement are also generally 
consistent with the current agreement. There are limited updates and deletion 
of obsolete provisions to Appendices 4, 7 and 10 - readily apparent in the 
redline document. 

These updates reflect changes to technical protocols and refinement of 
reporting requirements.The following documents are provided for public 
comment:  
  * Proposed Renewal Agreement [PDF, 388 KB]    
* Redline showing changes from the current .NET agreement [PDF, 200 KB]    * 
Proposed Renewal Agreement Appendices [PDF, 892 KB]  

 
 * Redline showing changes from the current .NET appendices [PDF, 608 KB]    * 
Summary and explanation of changes [PDF, 356 KB]

Public comment may be submitted to net-agreement-renewal@xxxxxxxxx through 10 
May 2011 and viewed at http://forum.icann.org/lists/net-agreement-renewal/. ;


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