BC Comment on Vertical Integration Working Group Initial Report
The Business Constituency (BC) already has an approved position on Vertical Integration (VI), which was posted in Sep-2009. However, The executive committee of the BC believes that the BC needs to add clarifications of our Sep-2009 position in order to make it more relevant the VI Working Group¹s initial draft report: 1. clarify what the BC meant by ³status quo² in our statement ³the BC opposes any change to the status quo for all TLDs intended for sale to third parties² 2. clarify what the BC meant by ³internal use² in our statement ³The BC believes that uniquely for domain names intended for internal use, the principle of registry-registrar vertical separation should be waived.² 3. encourage continued work to define eligibility and scope for dot-brand (single registrant) exceptions. We drafted a comment along these lines and have posted it here. Steve DelBianco Vice chair for policy coordination ICANN Business Constituency Attachment:
BC Comment on VI WG Initial Report.pdf |