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

[Richard Tindal <richardtindal@xxxxxx>]

The position Afilias/ Neustar/ PIR have been advocating and the position I have 
been advocating have dominated VI discussion the past year.    No other model 
has attracted the level of scrutiny and debate that those two models have.

I'm not saying they can't be revisited.   I'm just saying  we should be 
realistic.  If neither position has achieved consensus after a year of detailed 
discussion I think its unlikely such consensus will occur in the next few 
months.

R

 

On Mar 19, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Neuman, Jeff wrote:

> 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 
> 
> 
> 
> 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 
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