RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] CORE's position

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

Eric,

I am very surprised by CORE's support for the Afilias proposal.  Correct me if 
I am wrong, but isn't CORE an accredited Registrar?  And aren't they also 
interested in being a back-end registry service provider for new TLDs?  Unless 
I read the Afilias proposal incorrectly,  the Afilias proposal would prohibit 
you from being such a registry service provider for new TLDs unless CORE 
divests 85% of its registrar business (or alternatively keeps its registrar 
business and only owns 15% or less of the registry service provider entity).

Remember, the exceptions in Afilias' proposal would still not cover you as his 
proposal is cross TLD.  In fact, its probably unintended, but Afilias proposal 
would allow you to be a registrar in your own TLD (if community, orphan, 
brand...), but it would not allow you to be a registrar in any other TLD.  

For example, lets say CORE is a back-end operator for .berlin and lets assume 
that falls under one of the exceptions.  You could serve as a registrar up to a 
certain number in .berlin, but under the strict wording, you would have to 
still divest the rest of CORE's entire portfolio of domain names in every other 
TLD.  I understand this was probably unintended, but it is one of the reasons 
the whole cross-TLD language does not work.

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 Eric Brunner-Williams
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 5:10 PM
To: Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gnso-vi-feb10] CORE's position


Colleagues,

This should come as no surprise, CORE supports the proposed text which
Brian Cute is the editor, with some, minor in our view, modification.

For the purposes of expressing a general policy position, to be
settled in all of its details after Brussels, but before Cartagena,
Brian's proposed text meets our meta-goal of continuity, stability,
and and competition, between existing, and entering, for-profit and
non-profit, generic TLD registry services platform operators, and the
least barrier to entry for new for-profit and non-profit registry
operators, particularly those which are community-based, and non-profit.

CORE's proposed modifications to the proposal which Brian edits on
behalf of all of its adopters will be made as a separate proposal.

Eric