VeriSign Request for Contract Amendments Concerning Wait-Listing Service 
 
Whereas, on 21 March 2002 VeriSign, Inc., the operator of the .com
and .net registries, requested amendments to the registry agreements
for those top-level domains to allow it to conduct a twelve-month
trial of a proposed wait-listing service (WLS) to be offered 
through accredited registrars for an annual fee; 
 
Whereas, in resolution 02.53 that the Board requested the Names
Council to coordinate within the DNSO a comprehensive review of
issues concerning the deletion of domain names and possible
solutions for those issues and to submit to the Board a status
report on that review, with the status report to include any
recommendations concerning VeriSign's request to modify the .com and
.net agreements to allow it to provide the WLS; 
 
Whereas, the DNSO's Transfers Task Force presented to the Board a
status report giving preliminary findings and recommendations on
WLS, but requiring additional analysis and discussion within the
DNSO before the report is finalized; 
 
Whereas, as contemplated by resolution 02.55 ICANN has received
various public comments on the WLS on a web-based public comment
forum; 
 
Whereas, a Public Forum was held on 27 June 2002 at ICANN's meetings
in Bucharest, during which VeriSign gave a presentation of the WLS
in which it constructively proposed changes to accommodate concerns
expressed in community comments; the DNSO Transfers Task Force
summarized its preliminary findings and recommendations; and several
members of the Internet community gave their views on WLS; 
 
Whereas, the Board, although very anxious to ensure that action on
VeriSign's request proceeds without unnecessary delay, believes that
its consideration of the request would be assisted by receiving the
final report of the DNSO's bottom-up consensus- development effort,
including its views on the modifications recently proposed by 
VeriSign; 
 
Resolved [02.__] that the Names Council is requested to provide, no
later than 26 July 2002, its final recommendations, with its
supporting rationale and any separate positions of DNSO
constituencies, on the VeriSign WLS request (including the
modifications made on 27 June 2002), so that the Board may act
shortly thereafter.