Summary of Comments on NeuStar Amendment to Implement Registry Service

["Patrick Jones" <patrick.jones@xxxxxxxxx>]

Summary and analysis of public comments for:

 

Neustar Amendment to Implement Registry Service [registryservice]. 

Opened: 08 Jun 07

Closed: 29 Jun 07

 

Summary

 

Two comments were received. One was spam; one concerned a different matter
to the one under discussion. The NeuStar comment period used the open
registryservice at icann.org forum, which contained three previous comments
for registry service applications from Telnic and PIR. As no significant
objections were received, the amendment was executed following the meeting
of the ICANN Board of Directors in San Juan, and posted on the ICANN
website.

 

 

Analysis

 

No relevant comments were received. Comments using the same forum space for
previous proposed registry services would appear to indicate that the
comment space is visible, although the degree of visibility is uncertain.
The comment period was announced on the ICANN homepage on 8 June 2007
(http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-08jun07.htm) and added to
the Registry Services RSS feed.

 

The value of having a single comment space for registry services (rather
than a separate space for each proposed service) may be worth reviewing.
This was originally added at the request of the Registrars Constituency in
October 2006. However, when more than one registry service may be under
discussion at a given time, there are risks of confusion. This occurred
during the comment period for the NeuStar Amendment to implement the bulk
transfer after partial portfolio acquisition service, as a public comment
period was also running on Telnic's Whois proposal (# 2007004). Staff
resolved this by creating a separate public comment forum for the extended
comment period on Telnic's proposal.

 

 

Patrick L. Jones

Registry Liaison Manager

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

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Marina del Rey, CA 90292

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