Request for Comment - Transfer Policy Review Preliminary Recommendations

Sat Mar 30 17:32:12 EET 2024

Hello Yao Amevi. Thank you for our questions. I have posted responses to most of them, but a couple of them I will want to confer with the working group coordinators just so I am correct in my response. I hope that’s helpful.

In terms of tracking, I believe that each contributor can select either editing or suggesting. Either way, for questions it’s probably better to just put them in.

Ken

From: Yao Amevi A. Sossou <soyames at gmail.com> 
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Subject: Re: Request for Comment - Transfer Policy Review Preliminary Recommendations

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 <mailto:ken at kherman.com> > wrote:

Hello fellow NCSG members.

As an NCSG representative to the Transfer Policy Review Working Group (TPRWG), I seek your input on proposed preliminary recommendations currently under discussion.

Specifically, the working group is looking for feedback on the section of the transfer policy related to Change of Registrant.

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. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z8wx8KXhrwGmeKQEt2SJ8r271YcQ8-yk/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z8wx8KXhrwGmeKQEt2SJ8r271YcQ8-yk/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105988793481216121706&rtpof=true&sd=true> &ouid=105988793481216121706&rtpof=true&sd=true

Note that the working group leadership emphasized that this is not final language, but simply a way to gauge response from a wider audience.

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.

Some background/context:

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. 

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. 

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Thanks!

Ken Herman

NCUC EC NA Rep

ken at kherman.com <mailto:ken at kherman.com> 

Current transfer policy:

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/transfer-policy-2024-02-21-en

TPR WG details:

https://community.icann.org/display/TPRPDP/Transfer+Policy+Review+PDP

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