[gtld-council] Draft Summary of Public Comments on Proposed .BIZ, .INFO and .ORG, gTLD Registry Agreements

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Draft Summary of Public Comments on Proposed .BIZ, .INFO and .ORG, gTLD 
Registry Agreements
[DRAFT] Summary of Public Comments on Proposed .BIZ, .INFO, and .ORG 
Agreements
The ICANN Board considered a draft summary of Public Comments on 
Proposed .Biz, .Info and .Org agreements at its meeting held September 
7, 2006.
The draft summary is at 
http://www.icann.org/announcements/comments-summary-07sep06.htm.
The Board is interested in public comments on the draft summary. 
Comments may be provided at 
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-28jul06.htm.
2689 responses were received. A significant number of these were cross 
posted or copied over the three separate comment forums that were 
provided. There were 1014 unique senders. Many responses were made via a 
form letter. Some individual respondents sent in multiple responses. One 
individual sent in 32 responses.
Key elements of the public commentary were:


Concern that the lifting of provisions imposing price caps on registry 
operators will lead to differential pricing relating to single names or 
renewals;
A belief that there are inadequate protections around the use of traffic 
data by registries;
Concerns that renewal provisions are too lenient;
Process concerns - that the public commentary period provided by ICANN 
was too short, that ICANN had not provided sufficient information in 
support of some of the proposed provisions and that ICANN should wait 
for PDP 06 policy recommendations to be made before new agreements are 
made with registries.
The proposed draft agreements were first posted for public information 
and then comment in July 2006.
Staff reported during the Board meeting that negotiations with the 
registries are already underway regarding clarification of the issues 
surrounding differential pricing.
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
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