PIR and stability and consumer protection?

[Harold Feld]

These are important questions, but posing those questions requires, I
think somewhat more debate.

Why?  I'll confess this is my washington policy sensibility clicking.
 This consticuency seeks to provide a voice for non-commercial
organizations within the ICANN process, which includes on issues of
registry opperation.  It is a no brainer to ask how the non-commercial
registrants, which this consticuency is designed to represent, will be
protected.

It is somewhat more challenging to send a letter inquirying about
policy, because then the wording becomes very important and may require
extensive debate.  By contrast, a simple inquiry about the welfare of
non-commercial registrants should be both simple to execute and
relatively non-controversial.

Harold

Marc Schneiders wrote:

>As a non-native speaker of English I may say things too strongly... In
>any case, I would like the letter you suggest also to include a
>request for clarification about why PIR is doing away with IDN names
>in .ORG and why in such a secret way, both in March 2003, when
>resolution suddenly stopped and now again, esp. since so far PIR has
>promised to let these domains hibernate until some final encoding for
>IDNs is approved.
>
>On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, at 10:16 [=GMT-0500], Harold Feld wrote:
>
>>It seems to me that perhaps it is appropriate for the executive
>>committee of the consticuency to send a polite letter of inquiry from
>>the consticuency to PIR asking if the notification is correct and, if
>>so, what steps will be taken to inform and mitigate hardship to the
>>non-commercial user who registered for these names in good faith.
>>
>>Harold Feld
>>
>>Marc Schneiders wrote:
>>
>>>Perhaps more than a footnote to the present discussion of "Approval
>>>process for gtld service changes": PIR is going to delete all
>>>multilingual domains (also called IDN) on February 2004. I learned
>>>about this through the newsletter of a German registrar (quote below).
>>>
>>>I have protested earlier about the silent end to resolution (working
>>>DNS) of these domains in March 2003. PIR was not very responsive, to
>>>put it mildly. Now again there will be a secret change to these
>>>domains. They will quietly disappear. I see no message about it on the
>>>PIR website.
>>>
>>>I am of the opinion that this is unacceptable in several respects:
>>>
>>>1. Registrants are not notified. I have such a domain and I heard
>>>nothing.
>>>
>>>2. It is done in a most intransparent, even secret manner.
>>>
>>>3. It is related to the redelegation of a TLD. Will the same thing
>>>happen in 2005 with .NET?
>>>
>>>4. Multilingual domains were a private initiative of Verisign, not
>>>approved by ICANN, but neither did ICANN tell Verisign not to do it.
>>>In this context it is most relevant for the "approval process" topic.
>>>
>>>5. PIR kills .ORG multilinguals for technical reasons, it says (well
>>>the German text below does). At the same time Afilias (which runs .ORG
>>>technically) is introducing multilingual .INFO domains. Can anyone
>>>explain this to me, please?
>>>
>>>>From newsletter of dd24.net:
>>>
>>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>PIR wird multilinguale .ORG Domains nun doch löschen
>>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>Nach einer anders lautenden Meldung im November hat uns das kürzlich
>>>ernannte Zentralregister für .ORG Domains, Public Interest Registry
>>>(PIR),
>>>jetzt darüber informiert, dass die Registrierungen der nach dem
>>>ehemaligen
>>>"RACE-Verfahren" eingetragenen multilingualen .ORG Domains (also
>>>Domains mit
>>>Umlauten bzw. Sonderzeichen) doch nicht länger kostenlos verlängert
>>>werden.
>>>Stattdessen hat sich PIR für eine Löschung aller multilingualen .ORG
>>>Domains
>>>zum 1. Februar 2004 entschieden.
>>>
>>>Gründe für diese Entscheidung sind insbesondere die technischen
>>>Schwierigkeiten und Unsicherheiten der zukünftigen Umwandlung der
>>>bereits
>>>registrierten Domains in das neue "Punycode-Verfahren".
>>>
>>>Nun muss zunächst einmal geklärt werden, auf welche Weise eine
>>>Neueinführung
>>>multilingualer .ORG Domains gemäß des allgemeinen Standarts zukünftig
>>>überhaupt durchgeführt werden soll. Wir sind gespannt...
>>>
>>>Quelle: PIR
>>>
>>>
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