[ncdnhc-discuss] Re: Names Council Task Forces - MM

[Harold J. Feld]

I am willing to serve on both UDRP and .ORG.

Milton Mueller wrote:

>Good for Jamie to bring this up. 
>Please note that the archives of the emails of 
>all these task forces is available here:
>http://www.dnso.org/dnso/ncarchives.html
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>ORG
>I was Chair of the .org Task Force.
>A non-NC member cannot chair a TF, so 
>someone must replace me. I suggest Harold
>simply because he is familiar with the issues
>having been part of the .us change. 
>
>Although the DNSO has completed policy
>definition, the ORG process still has work to do. 
>NC is supposed to approve the official Request
>for Proposals developed by staff. Whether that
>will be done by a reconstituted Task Force or by
>NC directly is not clear. 
>
>UDRP
>I am co-chair of the UDRP TF. Erick is already
>on that TF, so I would suggest that either 
>Chun or Harold replace me. 
>
>The UDRP TF has just collected "survey" forms
>on the UDRP and is compiling them. The survey was
>a failure and should not guide the policy revision.
>Only about 200 people responded, there were too many
>questions. We need to get the data on how many
>of those were complainants, panelists, etc. I
>suspect that very few of them were respondents or
>respondent-oriented people.
>
>The process of revising UDRP will be very interesting.
>Whoever represents us on that committee should
>probably be a lawyer.
>
>TRANSFERS
>I am on the transfer TF. This is a highly technical
>and businesslike area, dealing with the procedures
>for transfering control of domain names from one
>registrar to another. It has important competition
>policy and consumer protection overtones. I would
>volunteer to stay on this, but I am afraid I cannot
>keep up with it. It is run by Marilyn Cade of AT&T
>and she prefers to work with teleconferences. also
>some fairly heavy documents regarding the issues
>are being exschanged, and one needs to know a lot
>about he defined procedures for transfers and even
>the SRS protocol. Any volunteers? 
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