RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] VI - An RSP Question..

["Hammock, Statton" <shammock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric, 

 

Thanks for the clarification of your position. I suppose I made an
assumption that was erroneous.  As a back-end registry provider, why
would you advocate for greater restriction on your company's ability to
contract with another party, such as a registry operator or registrar?
I am a little baffled by this logic. 

 

Statton

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Brunner-Williams [mailto:ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 3:33 PM
To: Hammock, Statton
Cc: Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] VI - An RSP Question..

 

Stratton,

 

You may have missed the CORE update, in columns N and O our update

reads "consistent with CORE, CORE does not sell .museum or .cat".

 

CORE doesn't control either MuseDoma or Fundatio PuntCat. CORE is

distinct, so distinct that we didn't (more to the point, contractually

couldn't) prevent SITA from entering into an RSP contract with Afilias

and ending its original RSP contract with CORE.

 

CORE the Registry Services Provider (RSP) doesn't control the policy,

price, selection of registrars, ... of .museum and .cat.

 

CORE the Registrar (Rr) also does not perform the registrar function

for either .museum or .cat.

 

I think that CORE's position on cross ownership between a RSP and an

RO and an Rr is more restrictive than a 15% ownership threshold, as

our threshold is effectively 0%, for the actors in the same name space.

 

Where the actors are in different name spaces, the registry services

provider for .foo having some interest in the registrar for .bar, or

the registry operator for .baz, because the mechanisms for

anti-competitive advantage relative to other actors in the same name

spaces are so tenuous, we don't see a sufficient rational to create

policy.

 

Perhaps the question you want to ask is not about registrars and

registry service providers, ignoring their inventory relationship, but

whether an RSP and an Rr share one or more inventories, and if so,

whether there is any equity or control basis for relative advantage

over other registrars.

 

Eric