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Re: [atlarge-discuss] An opportunity to help
Hello Danny:
What an opportunity! But, what do we do as a force if we cannot even get through authentication. Not to be facetious, yet, we have come a long ways since 2/02. Unfortunately, we are not yet ready for such a task. Hopefully, we will soon rise to the challenge.
Let us use this example to energize our commitment. We need to get organized!
Regards,
Micheal Sherrill
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From: DannyYounger@cs.com
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 00:19:52 EDT
On May 23, a Mr. Al Bode wrote a letter and posted it to the ALAC forum --
http://forum.icann.org/alac-forum/domain/msg00000.html
No one on the ALAC has even noticed this letter. Mr. Bode's problem deals
with hosting companies that list themselves as the registrant/administrative
contact when registering domain names for clients of their hosting services.
When these Hosting/ISP entities go bankrupt, it poses a problem for those
individuals that paid for rights to the domains but now are faced with a registrar
that won't respond to their needs (as registrars will cite ICANN rules that
disallow namespace changes if such modifications are not authorized by the
registrant and/or administrative contact).
This particular practice is common in the hosting community worldwide, and
affects a substantial number of registrants (many of whom aren't educated with
regard to the finer points of DNS registration services) as a fair number of
ISPs go out of business on a regular basis.
If the ALAC won't communicate with Mr. Bode, perhaps the members of
icannatlarge can act to help solve this vexing problem by bringing the issue to the
attention of the ICANN Board. What is probably called for is the development of
a set of "Best Practices for ISPs" that has the blessing of ICANN's ISP
Constituency. It might also be wise for ICANN to survey the ISP Community to
determine the magnitude of the problem (most especially in the developing world).
Here is an opportunity to help. How will this organization act to address
this challenge?
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