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[Bob Bruen]

Hi Stephane,

Ok, one more time...


I have been dealing with Compliance and the whois accuracy problem for many 
years. Registrars have been resisting fixing the whois problem for as long as I 
can remember, in spite of the fact it is in the RAA.

KnujOn has published numerous reports on the topic. The pushback from these 
reports has been strenous. Although none of the basic facts have been shown to 
be wrong, little has been fixed.

- Fadi's public statements about ICANN serving the registrars, his 180 degree 
turn from the Toronto meeting to Buenos Aires and private communications (which 
you do not have to accept).

- The firing of staff (and the closing of the Sydney office) who supported 
pressing the registrars by Compliance. There are also private communications 
(same caveat).

- The deliberate failure of ICANN to enforce serious infracions of the RAA.

- There has also been a long push by, for example by law enforcement, the 
Mexico City meeting) to make modifications to the RAA resisted by the 
Registrars and thus delayed or not implemented.

The very idea that ICANN has to negotiate with the Registrars for the RAA 
contract is not reasonable. ICANN gives a license to a Registrar to sell domain 
names. I can't imagine liquor stores, taxi companies or any other business that 
gets the right to exist and make money from a licensing agency being able to 
tell the agency what to do.

IMHO Compliance should be removed from ICANN to a third pary.

I am pretty much done with this topic. unless there is something new. If you 
want to discuss it further or ask questions, please do it directly to me, not 
to the list.

                 --bob


On Thu, 19 Dec 2013, Stephane Van Gelder Consulting wrote:

> Bob,

> Simple question: on what factual evidence do you base your comment that the 
> registrars control ICANN?
> 
> Stéphane
> 
> Le mercredi 18 décembre 2013, Bob Bruen a écrit :
>

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Dr. Robert Bruen
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