Antony Van Couvering wrote:
>
> Rob Hall from CIRA talked about how the Canadians had
> handled their domain, ...
> You can have a look at the as-yet-unfinished
> CIRA work at http://www.cira.ca.
The CDNCC final document, which is available at
http://www.canarie.ca/cdncc/finalreport.html, is an amazingly
thorough and fair document. Everyone involved in the present changes
in DNS organization, not only regarding .US but of the ICANN/NewCo
development as well, should read this work, and especially the ICANN
Board, B. Burr, Joe Sims, and the others who have seen fit not to
make the ICANN/NewCo a thorough and fair organization.
> The proposal I presented, although almost a year and a half old, was
> remarkably consonant with what CIRA had spent close to two years
> coming up with. The main features are:
> 1. Shared registry system
> 2. Almost anyone can become a registrar - very low bar
> 3. The registry is not-for-profit, this not-for-profit owned by the
> registrars
In the CIRA model, the owner/members are the registrants, as it
should be in a truly not-for-profit shared registry system.
> 7. Trademarks disputants should go through a non-binding arbitration
> process, to be handled informally by the registry. If they can't
> agree, let them go to court.
The CIRA model also provides for registrant-registrar dispute
resolution, and other registrant services:
"2.3.2 Registrant services
- Corporate membership registration services
- Alternative dispute resolution referral services
- Registrant-registrar dispute resolution services",
as well as rules regarding registrants' rights:
"Registrars will be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality
of registrant information under guidelines to be set by CIRA."
"Registrars may not change the registrant's contact information
(such as name and mailing address) at the registry without approval
by the registrant as per CIRA procedures."
"Registrars will be responsible for communicating all pertinent
information from CIRA to the registrant (such as renewal requests)."
"Registrants will have the right to contact CIRA directly to lodge
complaints against registrars. CIRA will develop policies and
procedures to handle such complaints."
Would it be too much to expect that the entity that ends up
administering the .US domain treat registrants with a similar
respect? That might go some way to make up for the total lack of
respect, the insult, shown registrants by ICANN.
