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PAB ICANN proposals, NSI contract extenions.

U.S. Department of Commerce
National Telecommunications and
Information Administration

Dear Sir or Madam:

This letter is written in support of the formation of ICANN under the fifth
iteration of its by-laws.

The process leading to this (hopefully) final *acceptable* draft has been
open and inclusive.  All known stakeholders have been able to be heard and
have had the democratic opportunity to influence the consensus.

Regarding the so called "amendment" to the contract with NSI, I visited
Becky Burr in D.C. on or about 12 August 1997.  She told me NSI's contract
ended 31 March 1998, but advised me that there was a provision for a six
month "ramp down" to the end of September 1998.  She assured me that there
would be no further extensions of their contract.   In my opinion, it is
totally unacceptable to protect this blatant monopoly until the year 2000.

As a matter of fact, the only plan that makes sense is for the NSI Registry
to be severed from the NSI Registration business;  for the former to be
incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation;   and for other qualified
firms to be given an equal status as registrars for the not-for-profit
registry.  Anything short of that will inevitably lead to anti-trust
challenges to the DoC/NTIA proposal.

Still further, all Registries should be bound by the same rules, e.g. 1.
WIPO or other administrative domain name challenge procedures, 2.
prohibition of warehousing by registrars for the purpose of trafficking in
gTLDs, 3. collecting valid data on the names of registrants, their reasons
for registering a particular name, a certification that they know of no
established trademark, trade name, service mark or brand name, etc.

Quick buck registrants should be prevented from "shopping the market" for
the *least* restrictive rules of business ethics.

Sincerely yours,
PSI-Japan, Inc.
by Robert F. Connelly
President

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Robert F. Connelly
Procurement Services International, Inc.
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