RE: [pdp-pcceg-feb06] GNSO PDP Feb 06: Proposed Work Plan

["David W. Maher" <dmaher@xxxxxxx>]

Any experts worth considering should certainly be able to understand 
that the questions presented are not the black vs white examples 
cited by Alistair. For example, there is a wide range of 
possibilities between full retender and perpetual renewal.
David
David W. Maher
Senior Vice President - Law & Policy
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At 06:56 PM 8/15/2006, Alistair DIXON wrote:
> I understand that the question has arisen of what questions should 
> be put to the independent experts.  I have not yet had a chance to 
> go right through the document to identify a complete list of 
> questions but following are examples of questions where I think 
> independent experts would provide considerable assistance in moving 
> the work of the task force forward: Should contracts be perpetually 
> renewable or each time they expire should they be fully 
> retendered?  Which of these options provides the best balance 
> between promoting competition and investment?  Is it appropriate to 
> apply price controls to these sorts of contracts?  What should the 
> nature of those controls be?  Or is it sufficient just to rely 
> solely on the ability to substitute to other domain names to keep 
> prices at an efficient level?
>
> I will endeavour to post a more complete list of questions once I 
> have gone through the document again.
>
> Regards
> Alistair
>
> Alistair Dixon
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