[NCSG-Discuss] Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) draft published

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

It is true, ccTLDs are the land of the free.

They can be a regulated or laissez-faire as they please.  
I see that change in the RAA as just recognizing that fact.

avri


On 8 Mar 2013, at 11:30, Rudi Vansnick wrote:

> Sorry for being late into this discussion (I've been lurking a while and had to catch up so many other discussions before  getting a clear view).
> 
> One thing that strikes me in the proposed RAA is the fact allover the document TLD has been change into gTLD, which clearly leaves the floor open for all ccTLD registrars. When looking into the cyber criminality aspect, I've discovered many of the registrars are hiding information in the WHOIS. For instance looking at the .be WHOIS, as a sample of my plea, for some registrars just the name is mentioned without any contact details nor even a URL ; look for www.dns.be and check energent.be - you'll see what I mean.
> 
> By changing the RAA TLD into gTLD eliminated by default the obligation to publish contactdetails as registrar. 
> 
> Maybe my perception is wrong, but at least I wanted to bring this to the table ... 
> 
> Rudi Vansnick
> NPOC policy
> 
> Op 8-mrt-2013, om 17:11 heeft Robin Gross het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> Thanks, Mary, I just saw the Registrars statement on this issue this morning and was pretty shocked by ICANN's latest move toward unilateralism (a very troubling trend) with staff's brand new RAA demands at this late hour.  ICANN has been moving away from "bottom up" multistakeholderism at the same time that it trumpets such a model at the ITU and elsewhere.  ICANN staff/board can't continue to claim ICANN is bottom-up while it reserves for itself the right to make all decisions.  
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>> Robin
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>> On Mar 8, 2013, at 7:59 AM, Mary.Wong at LAW.UNH.EDU wrote:
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>>> http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/proposed-raa-07mar13-en.htm
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>>> Besides the draft Registrant Rights & Responsibility (R3) document that has already been discussed on this list, there are several other issues that may be of concern/interest to NCSG members, including the overlap with the changes currently being proposed to the new gTLD Registry Agreement in light of the whole "public interest" issue around new gTLDs. Note that the law enforcement agencies' requests that dominated earlier public discussions of the RAA were already folded into the draft before February, which is when the last round of negotiations between the Registrars and ICANN took place.
>>> 
>>> The Registrars' Negotiating Team don't seem happy with ICANN releasing the draft at this point, interpreting that to mean that as far as ICANN is concerned this means negotiations are, effectively, over. Here's their official statement:  http://www.internetnews.me/2013/03/08/registrar-negotiating-team-issues-statement-on-raa/
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>>> Cheers
>>> Mary
>>> 
>>> Mary W S Wong 
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