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<![endif]-->Hi All,<br>
I hope all is well, and want to share the comments I submitted
last night to the public comment period on the RAA -- the new
Registrar Accreditation Agreement. I attended some of the sessions
on it, and the Webinar after Beijing, and realized there was a
problem with some of the contract language -- that if you don't
update changed information in 7 days (without further notice or
process) your domain names can be suspended or canceled. Yikes! <br>
<br>
I also applaud Robin's submission of the "Real Registrants Rights
and Responsibilities," a very nice addition to the version
presented in the proposed RAA.<br>
<br>
My comments below. All comments @
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-proposed-raa-22apr13/">http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-proposed-raa-22apr13/</a> <br>
Best,<br>
Kathy <br>
<br>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span
style="font-family:Calibri"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span
style="font-family:Calibri">Reply Comments In Support of Real
Registrant Rights
and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span
style="font-family:Calibri">In Opposition to RAA’s Proposed
3.7.7.2 Which Will
Lead to <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span
style="font-family:Calibri">Real Harm and Injustice for
Registrants<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">I. <span
style="mso-tab-count:
1"> </span>Real Registrant Rights and
Responsibilities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">I support
the comments
submitted by Robin Gross, Chair of the Non-Commercial
Stakeholders Group and
the “Real Registrant Rights and Responsibilities” document she
attached.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I was
pleased to find a draft of registrant
rights and responsibilities, and the idea is a positive step
forward – however,
it was drafted without the input of Registrant groups within
ICANN.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">As public
comment is the
opportunity for public input, I hereby submit my support for
the “Real
Registrant Rights and Responsibility” document submitted by
Robin Gross on
behalf of NCSG on May 14<sup>th</sup>. This document is the
result of a robust
conversation on the NCSG list, and at our meeting in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span
style="font-family:Calibri">Beijing</span></st1:place></st1:city><span
style="font-family:Calibri">, and the result of significant
input and edits of
numerous individuals in the NCSG (attached).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri">II. <span style="mso-tab-count:1">
</span>RAA’s
proposed 3.7.7.2 Will Lead to Real Harm and Injustice for
Registrants<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri">On a separate and personal note, I
raise my deep
concern and strong objection to the proposed change in RAA </span><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">3.7.7.2<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>that would allow a domain
name to become
null, void and subject to “suspension and/or cancellation” <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">within 7 days
of any change to
the domain name information – any change! <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">The
2009 RAA
requirement was reasonable and required Registrants to
“promptly” update their
information after a change.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This
proposed
change to the RAA came out of nowhere, was never discussed
with the Registrant
Communities of ICANN, and will lead to the most unfair of
results for Registrants.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">The
proposed 3.7.7.2 allows
Domain Name Cancellation <u>with or without any actual harm
or problem with the
domain name</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Simply
because a
Registrant has not updated her information after moving a home
or business – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">and
regardless of the accuracy of other contact information
including email and/or
phone</i></b> – <u>the Registrar will have the option to
suspend or even cancel
the Domain Name Registration (!)<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">The
result is blatantly
unfair and it is baffling why ICANN would want this as a goal.
For example, if a
parent has registered domain names for local charities,
sports, political
groups and neighborhood functions, and then relocates to new
physical address and
does not think to update her physical address (while she/he is
registering
children for school, seeking out the local grocery stories,
and finding
pediatricians), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">then within a mere seven days</i></b>, <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">all of her/his
domain names are now
subject to suspension or cancellation under this proposed
new section of the
RAA(!).</i></b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">This
“suspension
and/or cancellation” may take place, subject to the discretion
of the
Registrar, but allowed under the Proposed 3.7.7.2: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;
tab-stops:list
.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria">regardless of ANY notice to the Registrant (or the
complete lack
thereof);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;
tab-stops:list
.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria">regardless of ANY OTHER ACCURATE INFORMATION in the
Whois database,
e.g., phone and/or email address of the Registrant; </span><st1:stockticker><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">AND</span></st1:stockticker><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;
tab-stops:list
.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria">regardless of any harm OR LACK THEREOF in the
registration of the
domain name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">This
makes no sense as
a rule or principle of ICANN, and will lead to the most
ungracious of acts. It
will allow small businesses to spy on each other and report to
Registrars of
recent changes of location and the need to revoke domain names
– all in an
effort to steal valued domain names of their business or
industry; it will
enable Registrars to spy on their own customers and
cherry-pick domain names
from their Registrants’ accounts based on the mere change of
minor information
only eight days earlier. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default">Further, Proposed 3.7.7.2 violates the standard
set by the
Whois Review Team which called for, not absolute accuracy of all
Whois
information, but the contactability of the Registrant.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(See Recommendation 11 of
the Data Accuracy
Section which advises ICANN to “take appropriate measures to
reduce the number
of WHOIS registrations that fall into the accuracy groups
Substantial Failure
and Full Failure (as defined by the NORC Data Accuracy Study,
2009/10)…”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>-- terms
referring to the complete and nearly
complete inability to reach a registrant at <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">any </i></b>of
his/her/its
contact information). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">This
proposed change to
the RAA is in no way tied to any requirement of the security
and stability of
the Internet.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It is in
no way tied to
any other standard for consumer information updates and
corrections. For
example, I have ability (and notice) to update <span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>my personal information on
credit cards, social
networks, bank accounts, etc., and often it is the notice from
an institution of
an error in the data that notifies me (and all consumers) of
the need for an update
or correction. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria">Where,
as here, there
is no notice to the Registrant, and nothing to put him/her/it
on notice of a
violation, this proposed change will lead to real problems,
significant harm
and a sense of deep injustice by Registrants against ICANN.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Thank you for correcting
this proposal – and
setting it back to a “prompt” correction of data (with
adequate notice to the
Registrant).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Alternatively,
this
proposal must be tied, in its final version, to some type of
clear and present
harm and violation of the domain name registration, plus its
inaccurate
information, with due process for the suspension or
cancellation.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Please
contact me if you
would like to discuss the problems with this provision
further. Thank you for
making the small and reasonable change requested in the final
2013 RAA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span><span
style="font-family:Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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