The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN’s) Board of Directors adopted March 6, 2004 in Rome, a resolution regarding .net Registry Agreement Expiration Date and Initial Procedure for Designation Successor Registry Operator.
ICANN requested guidance from Generic Name Supporting Organization (GNSO) concerning the criteria for designating a successor operator for .net. GNSO has finalized its recommendation to ICANN regarding the criteria to be applied in the selection of a subsequent registry operator for .net. The final report was approved by the GNSO Council at their teleconference August 5, 2004, as a consensus statement by more than a two-thirds majority vote.
The GNSO recommended that the following criteria (as detailed in the Final report of the GNSO subcommittee at: http://gnso.icann.org/issues/dotnet/dotnet-reportv9.pdf be applied:
- absolute criteria related to the targeting
- absolute criteria related to continuity
- absolute criteria related to policy compliance
- absolute criteria related to stability, security, technical and financial competence
- relative criteria related to promotion of competition
- relative criteria relating to stability, security, technical and financial competence
- relative criteria related to existing registry services.
For more information, please visit http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-10aug04.htm