-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- John Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone been following the Registerfly fiasco? Since 2000, the ICANN >registrar agreement has required registrars to escrow their registrant >data according to ICANN's specs. It's been seven years, ICANN is just >now sending out an RFP to set up escrow providers, only because >they've been shamed into it when people discovered that there were no >backups of Registerfly's registrant data. Yes, it is a pretty sad commentary on ICANN's ability to follow through on policy. >Even if ICANN should try to do this, registrars will push back like >crazy since most of them have a minimum price mininum service business >model. In retrospect, it was a huge mistake to drop the price and let >Verisign and their friends mass merchandise domains as a fashion >accessory, but it's much too late to put that genie back in the >bottle. Well, that's a pretty sober commentary unto itself. I ask you: What would you suggest? It's quite hard to craft technical solutions to policy failures. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.1 (Build 1012) wj8DBQFGVlSiq1pz9mNUZTMRAgTkAKCEw1bovM6kP9BNA+iRlMj54dNaQgCfZXUa twkU7qcLFASkvC1GKoQFFjo= =7/bs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
