Request for Comment - Transfer Policy Review Preliminary Recommendations

[Yao Amevi A. Sossou]

Dear Ken,
Thank you.I have added some questions and comments to the document already.
But there is no tracking on the document.
Kind regards,
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 11:17 PM Ken Herman <ken at kherman.com> wrote:

> Hello fellow NCSG members.
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> As an NCSG representative to the Transfer Policy Review Working Group
> (TPRWG), I seek your input on proposed preliminary recommendations
> currently under discussion.
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> Specifically, the working group is looking for feedback on the section of
> the transfer policy related to *Change of Registrant*.
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> This document contains the text of the preliminary recommendations under
> discussion. Please use this document to add any comments that I can take
> back to the working group or questions that I will try to answer.
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z8wx8KXhrwGmeKQEt2SJ8r271YcQ8-yk/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105988793481216121706&rtpof=true&sd=true
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> Note that the working group leadership emphasized that this is not final
> language, but simply a way to gauge response from a wider audience.
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> Great if I can have all comments or questions by next Friday, April 5. If
> there is enough interest, I can arrange a zoom session and invite some
> speakers who are familiar with the working group.
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> Some background/context:
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>    1. The current transfer policy (see the link below) includes a section
>    “II. Inter-Registrant Transfer (Change of Registrant)” which the working
>    group charter (also linked below) considered to be a problem. As noted in
>    the charter, “According to the Transfer Policy Review Scoping Team Report,
>    the Change of Registrant policy ‘does not achieve the stated goals’ and ‘is
>    not relevant in the current & future domain ownership system.’ ”
>    2. The working group, as you can see in the preliminary
>    recommendations, suggests changing title from “Change of Registrant’ to
>    “Change of Registrant Data” (aka CORD), in recognition of the fact that
>    changing a registrant is mainly the action of altering the contact
>    information associated with a domain name registration.
>    3. The working group also suggests removing this section from the
>    transfer policy and creating a new, separate policy governing any change in
>    registrant information.
>    4. One issue that the group contended with concerns a 60-day lock on
>    any transfer of a domain after changes to registration information and
>    decided to eliminate any transfer lock. The rationale was that the lock was
>    confusing and restrictive to registrants. The TPR WG Charter also refers to
>    this: “Survey responses and data provided by ICANN’s Global Support Center
>    indicate that registrants do not understand the 60-day lock and express
>    frustration when it prevents them from completing an inter-registrar
>    transfer.”
>    5. A substantial amount of discussion within the WG has focused on the
>    ability of registrants to “opt out” of notifications of changes to
>    registration data.
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> Personally, I did not see anything in the discussion or the
> recommendations that would be a cause of concern, with the possible
> exception of the issues around opting out of notifications of changes to
> registration data. But there might be some issues I am not aware of so
> please have a look and let me know what you think.
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> Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
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> Thanks!
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> Ken Herman
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> NCUC EC NA Rep
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> ken at kherman.com
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> Current transfer policy:
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> https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/transfer-policy-2024-02-21-en
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> TPR WG details:
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> https://community.icann.org/display/TPRPDP/Transfer+Policy+Review+PDP
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