Hi Ross, --- "Ross Wm. Rader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Verisign requires that interested parties submit their questions by > > Friday. I was curious if OpenSRS resellers, as a group, would be > > interested in submitting questions (i.e. are we a "constituency"?) > > Resellers may not be a constituency in the classic sense, but they > most > certainly are impacted stakeholders and I would strongly recommend > that you > make your voice heard on issues that affect you. > > This is a great initiative. Let me know if I can be of assistance in > any > way.
Thanks. According to page 3 of the proposal, I think OpenSRS resellers qualify as a group under point 2 of the Procedural Guidelines, namely "groups of people not associated with DSNO organizations". I think as long as we fill out the information that was requested (I was missing precise info as to the objective size of the group), we should be recognized. If Tucows has some non-confidential data as to the size of the group, e.g. total number of domains (I can grab that from SnapNames' "State of the Domain", though) or number of distinct resellers, that should be an objective measure. Other than that, I think all that remains is that we appoint/annoint/conscript a representative to send out the aggregate list of questions to Verisign and then receive the answers in a week. After we get the answers, we can spend a couple of weeks to make a consensus "response" document to Verisign's proposal (which might differ slightly from Tucows Registrar, but it seems most everyone is against WLS so it should be similar). Verisign always says that the "mainstream" is in favour of WLS. OpenSRS resellers have relationships with the mainstream, and certainly are a big fraction (20%+ ?) of the non-Verisign domain registrations. That's a large community that Verisign is putting on their side by default, when it might be quite the opposite in reality. Sincerely, George Kirikos http://www.kirikos.com/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com
