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Unsponsred registry operators to ICANN: The unsponsored registry members of gTLD Registries Constituency (.biz, .com, .info, .name, .net, .org and .pro) are concerned that a process for the introduction of Registry Services involving a policy development process within the ICANN community may pose serious competition issues. Referral of new Registry Services through a PDP, or even community consultation, when some members of the community may be viewed as competitors with the gTLD Registries for certain Registry Services could potentially inhibit and interfere with the business of the gTLD Registries.

Paul Twomey had asked the GNSO to develop a process for the approval of new registry services in the context of ICANN's demand that Verisign stop its sitefinder service. A GNSO Council conference call to discuss this is scheduled for Thursday this week.

There's another Security and Stability Advisory Committee meeting in Washington DC on Wednesday, to focus on VeriSign's planning, data collection and analysis of its experience.

The following material from the October 7 meeting is available: Morning Session Video; Afternoon Session Video; Real-time captioning; Agenda and Presentations.

Later: The meeting on Wednesday will be webcast.

The delegation-only patches to BIND that have been deployed in response to Verisign's sitefinder service happen to break e-mail to first@last.name, since the TLD server directly returns MX records. No wildcards are involved here.

Global Name Registry to ICANN: Global Name Registry is disappointed to see .name customers being caught up in the crossfire between other parties on the Internet and what has perhaps been an emotional rollout of a technical countermeasure to the .com and .net zone change.