FW: ICANN and Registrar Negotiation Team Post Summary of RAA Negotiations

[Milton L Mueller]

Agree, this is concerning. 
However, note that it says "IF" ICANN creates an accreditation service. Have registrars agreed in principle that it should?

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> Summary of RAA Negotiations
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> I'm very concerned by item 1 (below):
> 
> We should work to see the language and to ensure that it would not
> exclude the registration of names on another's behalf by an agent
> committed to protecting privacy, such as an attorney.
> 
> LEA REQUEST 1: (a) If ICANN creates a Privacy/Proxy Accreditation
> Service, Registrars will accept proxy/privacy registrations only
> from accredited providers; (b) “Registrants using privacy/proxy
> registration services will have authentic Whois information
> immediately published by Registrar when registrant is found to be
> violating terms of service”
>