• Category: Board

• Topic: Recommendation of the Reconsideration Committee

• Board meeting date: 10 February 2000

• Resolution number: 00.10, 00.11

• URL for Board minutes/resolution: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/minutes-10feb00.htm

• Status: Completed.

Summary

Board denies the requests for reconsideration submitted by Bruce Perelman and Russ Smith.

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Mr. McLaughlin reported that the Reconsideration Committee has adopted recommendations on two requests for reconsideration presenting similar issues. On Request for Reconsideration 99-3, the committee adopted the following recommendation:

[RC 99-3] The Reconsideration Committee recommends that the Board deny Reconsideration Request 99-3.

The request asks the Board to reconsider its decision to block registration of ?.com and ~.com. Because the ICANN Board has made no decisions relating to whether or not those domain names can be registered, there is no decision that can be reconsidered.

Since the implementation of the Internet domain-name system in the 1980s, the specifications published and implemented by the Internet community have not permitted labels making up domain names to have characters other than letters, numbers, and internal hyphens. Througout this period, the specifications for the format of domain names have been well-known throughout the Internet technical community. They have been set forth in several RFCs, including RFC 1035 (published in 1987) <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1035.txt> and RFC 1123 (published in 1989) <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1123.txt>. The commonly accepted specifications are reflected in the functional specification for the Shared Registry System, through which competitive registrar services were introduced in the .com/.net/.org top-level domains last year, which requires that labels contain letters, digits, or internal hyphens. The use of domain names in a noncompliant format presents interoperability problems. Among other things, domain names that violate this format have the potential of causing software written in reliance on these formats to malfunction, and several instances of actual malfunctions have been identified.

The Reconsideration Committee finds the domain names identified in Reconsideration Request 99-3 to be incompatible with the functional specifications contained in the Shared Registry System. Any proposed change in those specifications should be advanced through the appropriate Internet standards-development organization, in this case the IETF.

After discussion, the following motion was duly made, seconded, and adopted unanimously by the Board:

RESOLVED [00.10] that, for the reasons set forth in the Reconsideration Committee's Recommendation RC 99-3, the Board denies the request for reconsideration submitted by Bruce Perelman on September 4, 1999.

RESOLVED [00.11] that, for the reasons set forth in the Reconsideration Committee's Recommendation RC 00-1, the Board denies the request for reconsideration submitted by Russ Smith on January 6 and 7, 2000.

Implementation Actions

• None

  • Responsible entity: Not applicable

  • Due date: None specified

  • Completion date: Not applicable

Other Related Resolutions

• Other resolutions TBD.

Additional Information

• Request for Reconsideration filed by Bruce Perelman on 4 September 1999 is available here: http://www.icann.org/en/committees/reconsideration/99-3-request-4sept99.htm.

• Recommendation of the Reconsideration Committee regarding Bruce Perelman's request, dated 27 January 2000, is available here: http://www.icann.org/en/committees/reconsideration/rc99-3.htm.

• Request 00-1 (part a) for Reconsideration filed by Russ Smith on 6 January 2000 is available here: http://www.icann.org/en/committees/reconsideration/smith-request1-6jan00.htm.

• Request 00-1 (part b) for Reconsideration filed by Russ Smith on 6 January 2000 is available here:http://www.icann.org/en/committees/reconsideration/smith-request2-6jan00.htm.

• Request 00-1 (part c) for Reconsideration filed by Russ Smith on 7 January 2000 is available here: http://www.icann.org/en/committees/reconsideration/smith-request3-7jan00.htm.

• Recommendation of the Reconsideration Committee regarding Russ Smith's request, dated 27 January 2000, is available here: http://www.icann.org/en/committees/reconsideration/rc00-1.htm.

• Letter from Russ Smith to Reconsideration Committee, dated 27 January 2000, is available here: http://www.icann.org/en/committees/reconsideration/smith-letter-27jan00.htm.

• Response of the Reconsideration Committee, dated 4 April 2000, to Russ Smith's letter is available here: http://www.icann.org/en/committees/reconsideration/committee-response-24apr00.htm.

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