[atlarge-discuss] FW: [Richard Henderson 1.2] Challenge from Ross Rader - RRA's

["Jkhan" <Jkhan@MetroMgr.com>]

Ross & Richard, 

While we are on the subject, maybe Ross would like to comment of Icann's
RAA's in particularly Port 43 non-compliance (RAA section 3.3.5), and
our rights as Registrants to protect ourselves. Ross, don't we have
rights to protect ourselves?


James

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Henderson [mailto:richardhenderson@ntlworld.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 9:38 PM
To: ross@byte.org; DannyYounger@cs.com
Cc: atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de
Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Challenge from Ross Rader

Hello Ross

Tucows - reseller - SPY PRODUCTIONS - .info sunrise - they put in the
fake
TM numbers for their customers (made up the numbers themselves - the
Customers didn't do it - outcome: loss to many other LR1 customers
Worldwide - action taken by Tucows? - are Spy Productions still trading
Through you - yes

Since the registrar community did not protect the interests of
individual
users in this case (or in the case of the 200+ Yesnic fake Sunrise
registrations, or the Joker ones, or the "2040" registrations also
registered through Tucows, where customers were actually told NOT to
worry
if they didn't have a TM but to go ahead and apply in the .info Sunrise
- in
short, for these reasons and hundreds of others:

OF COURSE the biggest constituency of all, the hundreds of millions of
ordinary internet users, should have representation on the ICANN Board,
because other constituencies in ICANN's discredited process have failed
to
take action against these abuses.

CHALLENGE to ROSS RADER : what accountability has Tucows taken for the
Spy
Productions fakes or the other reseller fakes, and incitement to fake?
What
actions did Tucows take in these cases? How did Tucows actions protect
the
individual user or redress the wrong they suffered? In short, is the DNS
administered for the benefit of registrars or for the benefit of the
worldwide community?

Incidentally, I have no big axe to grind against Tucows. I quite like
Tucows. There are many less ethical registrars than Tucows. But as
demonstrated, even Tucows has failed to take action to protect
individual
users in these cases. And others are far worse. There are many other
aspects
of ICANN's work which impact upon users. I have just referred to the New
TLD
process as a "demonstration" of one of these areas where it is so vital
to
have the voice of ordinary users represented in ICANN.

Richard Henderson

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