22 December 2011

The Fake Renewal Notices Drafting Team teleconference meeting for Thursday 22 December 2011 at 19.30 UTC. (11:30 PDT, 14:30 EDT, 19:30 London, 20:30 CET for other places see: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Fake+Renewal+Notices+Drafting+Team&iso=20111222T1930).

Adobe Connect URL: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/frndt/

For those of you using Adobe Connect for the first time, please find a short introduction video here: https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a227210/participatemeeting/

Proposed Agenda:

Roll Call / Statements of Interest
Review approach and discussion of last week's meeting
Continue development of Registrar Survey
Confirm next steps and next meeting

For review:

Notes from previous meeting, see https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/gnsofakerenewaldraft/pages/115049216/2.+DT+Documents+drafts+-+published
Review proposed questions for Registrar Survey:

What is the source of complaints you receive?
   Customers?
   Other Registrars?
Do you view the number of complaints as a significant burden/cost or a rather minor issue?
   Not very significant
   Significant burden
   Extremely burdensome
Is there a trend (up, down, steady)?
Are you seeing the same players or are there new ones entering -- is this proliferating?
Where are they coming from?
   An entity connected to ICANN? How?
       Registrar
       Reseller
       Other
   What country are they coming from?
       Canada
       US
       UK
       Other
What is the mechanism you use to govern your resellers to prevent FRNs?
   By contract?
   By limiting capability through the API?
   Other?
   Combination of the above?
Representative examples of notices
Impact on your operation or customers?
   Cost
   Lost customers
   Other
What "holes" do you see in the new RAA? Do you think it provides sufficient mechanisms to address FRNs?
What do feel is an appropriate role for ICANN in addressing this issue?