Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] RySG Supermajority view on Vertical Integration

["Neuman, Jeff" <Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard,

By your logic, no position on either side or in the middle has gained consensus 
support, including staff's proposals. Does that mean everything is off the 
table?

I believe all proposals submitted in the past and future must be analyzed by 
the WG.
Jeffrey J. Neuman, Esq.
Vice President, Law & Policy
NeuStar, Inc.
Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxxx


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From: Richard Tindal
To: Neuman, Jeff; Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri Mar 19 12:30:22 2010
Subject: Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] RySG Supermajority view on Vertical Integration

Jeff/ All,

I agree that all options are on the table.

Having said that,  we've been discussing the RySG proposal for a year now and 
it's clearly failed to achieve consensus.   It has many problems, including:

1.    It's tailored to suit the business needs and structures of Afilias/ PIR/ 
Neustar.   For example, it would allow two registrars to own 98% of Afilias 
(49% each)  ---  and alleges no favoritism or consumer harm would occur from 
those registrars selling Afilias names  -  but argues the CRS (CentralNic and 
NSI) co-ownership model would cause consumer harm;

and

2.    By prohibiting co-owned reseller and back-end relationships it imposes 
stricter controls on new TLDs than those in place for .COM and .NET.  I don't 
think the interests of fairness or enhanced competiton will be served by 
applying stricter controls on new TLDs than we have for .COM.  I'd rather adopt 
the Board's Nairobi resolution than do that.

Similarly,  my proposal that a co-owned registrar can sell up to 100K names in 
it's own TLD has also failed to achieve consensus this past year.    I don't 
see by see a lot of value in revisiting that model in detail.

I think we need a (new) solution that satisfies broader interests than those of 
parties who've been vocal on this issue the past year.

RT



On Mar 19, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Neuman, Jeff wrote:

All,

I wanted to forward around the RySG Supermajority statement on Vertical 
Integration in April 2009 (at the time of DAG 2 it was section 2.8).  For 
whatever reasons (which were not explained in the comments by staff or in the 
analysis of the comments), this was not presented as an option in DAG v.3.  We 
believe this option, however, should be analyzed by the PDP VI WG as it will 
analyze all of the other proposals that have been made, including those by 
staff.

Margie – Can you please make sure this is put on the wiki along with all of the 
other proposals and staff papers on the subject.

Thanks.

Jeffrey J. Neuman
Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Law & Policy
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