Second level domains

The following presentation was given at a special session on Rights Protection Mechanisms at ICANN's Costa Rica meeting on 14 March 2012. See a full summary of that session. (Download slides)

Agenda

• Background on new rights protection mechanisms
• Trademark Clearinghouse
• URS
• PDDRP

Background

• New gTLD Program founded in GNSO policy recommendations
• GNSO Recommendation 3: Strings must not infringe the existing legal rights of others that are recognized or enforceable under generally accepted and internationally recognized principles of law.

Development of the RPMs

Rights Protections Mechanisms

New requirements

• At start-up:

The following model for evaluating how valid a domain name's registrant details are likely to be was presented by the UK's Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) to a session on Whois validation at ICANN Costa Rica (March 2012).

During that meeting - which .Nxt has summarized in full - the 'Five C's' model was highlighted by GoDaddy's James Bladel as "the most helpful five minutes I've seen on this whole topic in two years."

The following list of possible ways to verify "Whois data" i.e. the information provided when someone registers a domain name, was published at ICANN's Costa Rica meeting in March 2012 in relation to ongoing negotiations over the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) - the key contract that defines how domains are registered.

Potential Steps for Verification of Whois Data

DRAFT for discussion purposes

Summary: Listed below are various steps that have been identified a possible mechanisms to achieve the verification of Whois data as requested in the Law Enforcement Recommendations. This list is not intended to be comprehensive, but to help guide conversation on where the line should be drawn in potential verification/accuracy processes.

1. All required fields are complete and are not obviously missing information (e.g., telephone numbers, zip codes, etc. contain data).
2. Email addresses are in the proper format (RFC 5322).
3. Telephone / fax numbers (if provided) are in the proper format (ITU-T E.123 international notation).

NANCY LUPIANO: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We're about to begin our RAA and WHOIS validation workshop. Please welcome Volker Greimann and Kurt Pritz who will act as our moderators.

KURT PRITZ: Good afternoon, everyone. And thanks, Volker. This is really a bifurcated session. First, Volker from the constituency and I will provide an update as to the status of the RAA negotiations where we're seeking to amendment the RAA, the registrar accreditation agreement. The session is meant as a brief update. It will reflect the material in the status report that's provided, identify next steps. And then at the close of that we'll go into what we think is the most important and, frankly, very interesting part of this session where we have ‐‐ we ‐‐ the registrars and us and the committee ‐‐ have put together a panel, a very esteemed panel who is going to describe different WHOIS validation models for us. The effectiveness of them, the cost, the benefits.

So it's not so much a session to debate whether WHOIS validation or verification should be undertaken, but, rather, how. And this panel will present models to us. And I think it's going to be fabulous.

STEVE CROCKER: Good afternoon. We're going to open the public session here. And I want to take care of two or three pieces of business before we plunge into the real work.

One, trying to raise our game a bit and part of that is civilized behavior. We have an expected standards of behavior posted as part of our whole self-examination of conflicts of interest and other aspects. We are going to take a look at this part, too, so it may get modified a little bit but only in the positive direction. Let me bring that to your attention and ask that everyone adhere to it.

Coordinator: Excuse me, this is the operator. Just need to inform all parties today's conference is being recorded, if there are any objections you may disconnect your line at this time.

Stephane Van Gelder: Hello everyone. Welcome to the GNSO Council Wrap-Up. Can I ask councilors that are in the room to try and grab some lunch as quickly as they can so that we can start the meeting and we'll look to start in about five minutes.

So GNSO councilors please start getting some lunch. Thank you. And everyone else obviously.

Okay GNSO councilors can I ask you to get to the table as soon as you can please and we'll start the meeting. I know there are other meetings that people want to get to afterwards so I'd like to start as soon as possible. Thank you.

((Crosstalk))

Stephane Van Gelder: Okay welcome everybody. Can I please ask the operator to start the recording? Can I ask the GNSO councilors to take a seat and we will start his wrap-up. As a reminder the wrap up is more of an informal discussion than something with a set agenda.

CHAIR – HEATHER DRYDEN: Hello again, everyone. If we can begin to take our seats again, we'll continue with our work.

Let's restart our meeting. So what I propose to do this afternoon is continue the discussion about new gTLDs. And then, at the very end, we have some GAC business to take care of. And we can go back into a
short closed session just to deal with those items. Regarding new gTLDs, let's see whether, at this point, we are able to begin exchanging about some of the topics that we just heard about and had questions
about before the break and see whether it's possible for us to formulate thoughts or the beginnings of advice that we might want to give on those topics that would go into our communique this week. We did
have a fair number of questions around process and timing for current elements. But I would like to see whether we're in a position to begin formulating on some advice on those same topics at this point. So we
can see how that develops.

GNSO Working Session, ICANN 43, 10:00-18:00, Saturday 10 March 2012

[Copy of transcript, chat transcript and audio available on 10 March 2012 GNSO working session page]

Ongoing and Pending Projects (10:00-10:30)

Stephane van Gelder: So welcome everyone to Costa Rica. Welcome to the new council members joining us for the first time for this meeting. Welcome to the - I'm not going to say old - existing council members. Nice to see you all once again. Look forward to a week of productive work with you all. Welcome to our excellent staff support and welcome to everyone else in the room obviously who are joining us for these meetings.

I will probably have some housekeeping issues as we get into the morning but let's try and get the meeting started now as swiftly as we can and we'll come back to those throughout the day.