Important News

Feb 06 PDP, Registry Agreements

• Preface to statement and the statement by the Registries Constituency on the Draft Terms of Reference for a PDP to Guide Contractual Conditions for Existing Top Level Domains (March 2, 2006)
• Response to the straw poll for the February 06 PDP on Contractual Conditions for Existing Registries (January 3, 2007)
• Statement concerning the Feb 06 PDP to establish Policies for Contractual Conditions for Existing Registries (April 27, 2006)

• Comment from gTLD Registries Constituency on Policy For Allocation of IPv4 Blocks to Regional Internet Registries
• Presentation to the GNSO Council during the ICANN meeting in Vancouver, Canada (December 2, 2005)

• Registries Constituency input provided to the GNSO Council regarding suggestions for GNSO improvement for consideration by the Council (December 21, 2005)
• Review http://gnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-22dec04.htm
• gTLD Registries Constituency Comments http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-review/msg00003.html

• Registry Operators' Statement regarding Objections to the Proposed VeriSign Settlement (February 20, 2006)
• Registries Constituency statement as adopted and submitted to ICANN on December 1, 2005, regarding the ICANN/VeriSign Settlement Agreements (December 1, 2005)

• gTLD Registries Constituency comments to the ICANN 2007-11 Strategic Plan (August 23, 2007)
• ICANN Strategic Planning Issues Paper comments provided to representatives of the GNSO Council attending Strategic Planning meeting with ICANN on October 19, 2005.
• gTLD Registries Constituency comments submitted to ICANN regarding the ICANN Budget published on May 17, 2005 (June 22, 2005)
• Comments concerning the draft ICANN Strategic Plan (February 28, 2005) http://forum.icann.org/lists/strategic-plan-comments/msg00029.html
• ICANN Strategic Plan http://icann.org/strategic-plan/strategic-plan.html
• GTLD Registries Constituency Comments http://forum.icann.org/lists/strategic-plan-comments/msg00029.html

• Statement made on behalf of gTLD Registries Constituency during the IDN Workshop held at the ICANN meeting in Luxembourg City (July 13, 2005)
• ICANN Statement on Homograph Attacks and Request for Public Comment http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-23feb05.htm
• GTLD Registries Constituency Comments http://icann.org/topics/news022305.html

• gTLD Registries Constituency Impact Statement regarding the Introduction of New gLTDs (June 6, 2007)
• Constituency statement on the Terms of Reference for new gTLDs (January 30, 2006)

LSE Report, GNSO Improvements

• gLTD Registries Constituency comments regarding the Development of Transparency and Accountability Management Operating Principles (December 30, 2006)
• gTLD Registries Constituency comments regarding the LSE GNSO Review (December 5, 2006)

• General Information http://icann.org/tlds/dotnet-reassignment/dotnet-general.htm
• ICANN Engages Independent Evaluation Team to Review .NET Applications http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-07feb05.htm

• Constituency Statement attached to Final GNSO Report http://www.gnso.icann.org/issues/registry-services/final-rpt-registry-approval-10july05.htm#7.8.
• General Information http://gnso.icann.org/issues/registry-services/
• Constituency Statement (March 3, 2004) http://gnso.icann.org/issues/registry-services/registry-statement.shtml

• General Information and Public Comments for Proposed Sponsored Top Level Domains (TLDs) http://icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/stld-public-comments.htm

• General Information/Updates http://www.icann.org/transfers/
• Dispute Resolution Providers for Transfer Dispute Resolution Policy http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-08nov04.htm

• Statement of the gTLD Registries Constituency on the final Whois Task Force Report of 12 March 2007, and the Whois Outcomes Working Group Report finalized on 20 August 2007) and forwarded to the GNSO Council for consideration (October 4, 2007)
• Response by the gTLD Registries Constituency to Motion 1 as approved by the GNSO Council on July 20, 2006 (July 26, 2006)
• Statement of the Registry Constituency statement on WHOIS Terms of Reference Items 2, 3 and 4 (January 15, 2007)
• Statement in support of sponsorship of the Whois Privacy Conference, "Building Bridges on ICANN's Whois Dilemma," to be held on Tuesday, November 29, 2005, at the ICANN meeting in Vancouver.
• The GTLD Registry Constituency (RyC) Statement on the Whois Combined Task Force Terms of Reference Tasks 1 and 2 http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/tf-prelim-rpt-12sep05.htm (Section 2.5) (August 17,2005)
• gTLD Registries Constituency statement concerning Whois Combined Task Force Policy/Advice Recommendation 2 on conflicts between national privacy laws and Registries or Registrars contractual obligations to ICANN (July 21, 2005)
• Statement of the gTLD Registries Constituency on Whois Task Force 1/2 Recommendation: Improving Notification and Consent for the Use of Contact Data in the Whois System (February 16, 2005) http://www.gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/dow1-2tf/msg00247.html
• Statement submitted to the ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Whois Task Force 3 (Accuracy of Data) on behalf of the gTLD Registry Constituency http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/Whois-tf3-preliminary.html#AppendixG
• Statement submitted to the ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Whois Task Force 1 on behalf of the gTLD Registry Constituency http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/Whois-tf1-preliminary.html#GTLDRegistriesConstituency
• General Information/Updates http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/index.shtml
• Registries Constituency statement on the GNSO Whois report, Definiton 1 http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/tf-report-15mar06.htm#0.4e

• Recommendation to the GNSO Council Regarding Policy Work on Protection of IGO Names and Abbreviations in line with WIPO 2 (May 23, 2007)
• WIPO 2 Process Issues

• Background and General Updates http://www.wgig.org/
• Press Releases http://www.wgig.org/