[PC-NCSG] Joint ALAC/NCSG statement on the URS (alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca)

[Robin Gross]

I agree with ending the statement with  "make no substantive changes".

Also, let's add "and only" and  "so far" as follows:

>>> "ICANN's first and only choices so far of service providers."

Thank you very much!  This is a strong statement.  Who from At-Large  
will present it with me during the forum - Olivier?

Best,
Robin


On Oct 17, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:

> Quick question: have any of you reached out to the individuals who  
> were
> involved with this in the STI, whether BC or even contracted  
> parties? If
> the URS was such a carefully crafted community-wide consensus, would
> those other communities wish to support this statement?
> Kindest regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> On 17/10/2012 15:19, Alan Greenberg wrote:
>> Two comments, one trivial and the other less-so.
>>
>> In the middle of para 2, community-wide should be hyphenated.
>>
>> Perhaps more controversial, I would fee better with the last sentence
>> saying "... make no substantive changes ...".
>>
>> I can accept the statement with that change, but would feel better
>> with it.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>> We would like to call the community's attention to the current  
>>> status
>>> of the Uniform Rapid Suspension system, or URS.
>>>
>>> As a method to protect brand owners and Internet users against clear
>>> and obvious instances of domain abuse, the URS was a carefully
>>> crafted community wide consensus. It involved many ICANN
>>> constituencies and hard-won compromises that we can both support and
>>> defend.
>>>
>>> Recently, attempts have been made to re-open URS policy because of
>>> cost-related pushback from ICANN's first choices of service
>>> providers. Our communities are concerned that important protections
>>> to both users and brand owners could be negatively impacted in the
>>> name of cost cutting. We ask ICANN to make every effort necessary to
>>> seek providers capable of implementing the URS as it now exists, and
>>> demand it make no changes to the URS without the same level of
>>> cross-community support that led to the current consensus.
>>
>
> -- 
> Olivier MJ Cr?pin-Leblond, PhD
> http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
>
>




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