RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] RE: A Call to Harms

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

Volker,

Nothing in and of itself is harmful just the same as nothing in and of itself 
is beneficial.  All of it involves possibilities.  For example, allowing VI/CO 
does not automatically mean there will be innovation or consumer benefits.  
Similarly, allowing VI/CO does not automatically mean there will be harms.

And as the economists said yesterday (and many times before that), the use of 
registrars in general does not automatically have consumer benefits.  In fact, 
in many cases, absent market power, there are a number of detrimental effects 
of requiring equal access among registrars for consumers.  

So, I understand your desire as a registrar to be allowed to own both a 
registry and registrar, but are you also willing to do away with the equal 
access requirements as well as the requirement to have to use ICANN-accredited 
registrars in the first place.

If you are truly willing to do this, then I would be happy to discuss your 
proposal for open VI/CO on a serious basis.  If you are only willing to open up 
the registry side, but not touch the registrar side, then I think we have some 
more work to do.

Thanks.

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


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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Volker Greimann - Key-Systems GmbH
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 8:26 AM
To: gn >> "'Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx'"
Subject: Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] RE: A Call to Harms


Hi Jeff,

just for clarification:

Do you feel, as you write, that VI/CO _does_ have harmful effects, or 
just that it _can_ have harmful effects?
If it is the latter, would you not agree that instead of limiting every 
new registry inrterested in VI/CO models it would be much more sensible 
to just prevent those harmful effects?

> I did not want this group to delve into these issues because frankly 
> some of us feel like VI/CO does have harmful effects, some do not.  We 
> are not going to change minds here in this group.  We are trying to 
> find compromise.  Simply bringing up these old arguments about the 
> harms and benefits of integration is in my mind not a useful exercise 
> until we can actually have real studies done by non-interested parties 
> (which is a long term objective).
>
> Jeffrey J. Neuman
>
> Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Law & Policy
>
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Best regards,

Volker A. Greimann

Key-Systems GmbH