Re: [gnso-pednr-dt] PEDNR: A proposed path forward

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

On 1 Nov 2010, at 19:12, James M. Bladel wrote:

> 
> Good afternoon, everyone.
> 
> 
> With our review of community feedback complete, several of us on the WG
> have been working to synthesize all the various positions and opinions
> expressed on PEDNR into a compromise proposal.
> 
> 
> The objectives of putting this forward are:
> 
> (1)  Provide additional safeguards for registrants to guard against the
> inadvertent loss of registrations, secured by Consensus Policy.
> (2)  Provide some consistency in the registrant's experience with
> expiring names.
> (3)  Accomplish (1) and (3) in a manner that does not unnecessarily
> disrupt the numerous commercial and non-commercial activities in our
> industry.
> 
> With these in mind, we submit the following slate of proposals for your
> consideration.  
> 
> 
> Grace Period (Secured by Consensus Policy)
> -------------------------------------------
> Guaranteed five-day registrar grace period (what to call it will need to
> be determined so as to avoid confusion with similarly named periods)
> following expiration.  Only the RAE can recover/renew name during this
> period.  While the name will not go to auction during this period, it
> could be explicitly deleted by the Registrar, which commences the RGP.  
> 
> 
> Renewal notices (Secured by Consensus Policy)
> ---------------------------------------------
> Requirement to send (by a method at each registrar's discretion) a
> minimum of one renewal notice to registrant no later than 10 days prior
> to expiry, and a second notice the day prior to the expiry date
> notifying the RAE that the 5-day registrar grace period will begin the
> following day.  
> 
> 
> Whois
> -----
> No changes to Whois recommended.
> 
> 
> Community Education
> -------------------
> Registrars:       
> Best practice recommendation: A registrar will design and host a
> neutral-content site with important information about how to properly
> steward a domain name and prevent unintended loss.  
> Registrar should provide on its web site, and send to registrant in
> separate e-mail to registrant immediately following initial
> registration, a set of instructions for keeping domain name records
> current and for lessening the chance of mistakenly allowing the name to
> expire.  
> 
> ALAC: 
> Budget time/money/resources to public education campaign to encourage
> renewals and prevent unwanted loss of a name.
> 
> 



As I am travelling I won't be able to make it onto the call this evening. I 
just wanted to say thanks to James for taking the time to put this out there 
and to support the concepts

regards

Michele

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