Re: [gnso-irtp-b-jun09] For your review - new proposed language for Recommendation #4

["Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" <michele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm happy with those edits and would like to thank James and Simonetta for 
coming up with language that gets us past this issue

Regards

Michele


On 25 May 2011, at 14:35, Marika Konings wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> Please find below the proposed new language for recommendation #4, as 
> developed by James and Simonetta. You are encouraged to share your views (any 
> objections?) / comments and/or proposed edits with the mailing list as soon 
> as possible.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marika
> 
> ========================================
>  
> Recommendation #4 (NEW): The WG notes that the primary function of IRTP is to 
> permit Registered Name Holders to move registrations to the Registrar of 
> their choice, with all contact information intact. The WG also notes that 
> IRTP is widely used in the domain name community to affect a "change of 
> control," moving the domain name to a new Registered Name Holder. The IRTP-B 
> WG recommends requesting an Issue Report to examine this issue, including an 
> investigation of how this function is currently achieved, if there are any 
> applicable models in the country-code name space that can be used as a best 
> practice for the gTLD space, and any associated security concerns. The policy 
> recommendations should include a review of locking procedures, as described 
> in Reasons for Denial #8 and #9, with an aim to balance legitimate transfer 
> activity and security. Recommendations should be made based on the data needs 
> identified in the IRTP-B workgroup discussions and should be brought to the 
> community for public comment. The WG would like to strongly encourage the 
> GNSO Council to include these issues (change of control and 60-day 
> post-transfer lock) as part of the next IRTP PDP and ask the new working 
> group to find ways to quantify their recommendations with data.
> 
> Included as part of the notes / deliberations: The working group discussed 
> whether the introduction of stricter locking procedures after a domain name 
> transfer might be prudent to ease the resolution of hijacking issues, as well 
> as other enforcement / takedown problems. At this point the working group 
> lacked access to data on the number of hijacking cases with resolution 
> problems due to the transfer hopping practice vs. the number of legitimate 
> transfers benefitting of a less stringent locking policy and could therefore 
> not come to consensus on the locking topic. Data on the frequency of 
> hijacking cases will become available through the introduction of the EAC 
> recommended in this report. Data on legitimate transfer activity benefitting 
> from the current locking policy wording needs to be collected. The WG notes 
> that the 60-day post-transfer lock is currently optional (IRTP Reason for 
> Denial #9), and that most large registrars follow this practice. It is 
> however currently possible to ask for the removal of a lock (or not apply it 
> in the first place) which would no longer exist should the policy be changed. 
>  The WG would like to emphasize that reason of denial #9 relates to a 
> transfer, not to a change of control (change of registrant), although the WG 
> realized as a result of its deliberations that transfers are often closely 
> linked to a change of control. The WG recommends that the issue of transfer 
> 'hopping' after hijacking be considered in conjunction with the issue of the 
> lacking "change of control" function while also taking a review of the domain 
> locking options in IRTP into account. All three pieces should be included as 
> part of the Issue Report on "change of control" (see recommendation #4). 

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