Re-sending TXT form of Proposed IDNA2008 Transition Idea

[Eric Brunner-Williams]

Hmm. We can tell we're not in San Francisco as the locus of 
irresponsibility isn't registries ...

Seriously John, there are registries, and registries, from the 
repurposed toys to the highly responsible, and there are registrars 
and registrars, from the domainer shells to the highly responsible.

There is no benefit to a registrar, or a registry, in what you expect 
of either. This is not a fault of individual registrars, or individual 
registries, so when looking for root causes, try to look to 
fundamental incentives. Try and complete a sentence that begins with 
"Honesty towards ICANN is ..." and doesn't end "wasted effort."

I don't think it is necessary to invent a "registry service" to as the 
preferred solution to registrant desires to register additional 
domains. I didn't think it was necessary to invent a "registry 
service" as a solution to registrant desires to synchronize the expiry 
and renewal dates of domains.

It may just as well be implemented as a registrar service, and on that 
distinction registries, and registrars, pay no small amount of attention.

It ICANN wants to incent registries it need only look to the registry 
desire to offer IDNs. If ICANN wants to incent registrars it need only 
look to the registrar desire to offer IDNs. Don't screw around playing 
with the two dimes, look to fundamental incentives.


Apropos of EPP and bundling, I proposed containers, they were in XRP, 
it was a natural fit for bundles, and no one else at the time thought 
EPP needed anything more than a single unit transaction type.

I'm now concern with how this discussion is going.

Eric

On 12/14/09 3:34 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
>
>
> --On Monday, December 14, 2009 15:17 -0500 Steve Crocker
> <steve at shinkuro.com>  wrote:
>
>> Patrik,
>
>> Thanks.  Let me say this a bit more carefully.  My wording was
>> indeed   imprecise.  The meaning I intended, particularly in
>> the ICANN arena   where the registries are restricted from
>> initiating registrations, is   that the registrar would
>> registrar the variants on behalf of the   existing registrant
>> at no cost for a limited period of time.
>> ...
>
> Steve,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how this would work, at least other
> than on a case-by-case basis.  For the registries, ICANN could
> do some persuading, could waive the per-name fee, or offer other
> incentives.   And there aren't very many of them.   But it seems
> to me that the registrars are a different matter: There are many
> of them.  We know that a large number of them are in it
> primarily for the money, with "smooth, stable, and secure
> operation of the Internet" as not a very high priority.   Having
> this be "no cost" means that they have to go to significant
> effort to identify appropriate registrations and create new ones
> without any expectation of compensation.  Worse, they then
> either have to track the registrants down and work out with them
> how the new zones are going to be delegated and supported
> (costly) or have to support those delegations themselves (also
> costly and with the potential of all sorts of interesting
> security problems since, by definition, that means that the two
> zone files are different except in the case in which the
> registrar is already the registrant's zone admin (and maybe web
> and mail service provider).  I don't see our being able to
> persuade them to do that work for the general good as being very
> likely.
>
> Do you have a different model in mind?
>
>      john
>
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