All, Mea Culpa. I cleared up my own confusion here. This IS about a registrar insurance waiver /Foggy brain/ is a hazard from staying up all night working to meet a deadline. Sam L. On 01/10/2015 11:44 AM, Sam Lanfranco wrote: > All, > A flash of ICANN Board sanity here. Great! If my memory serves me > right, there may be a second related step necessary on the insurance > front. I believe it is correct to say that ICANN also imposes an > insurance requirement on contracts between Registrars and Registries. > Correct me if I am wrong but as I recall, African Registries have also > complained that the nature of the insurance condition, as written in > the contracts, is also very burdensome. > Am I right...or wrong? > Sam L. > > On 01/10/2015 11:33 AM, Rafik Dammak wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Related to the discussion about developing economies and gTLD, ICANN >> board just voted this resolution waiving the registrar insurance >> requirement which represents a barrier in many developing countries >> https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-waives-registrar-insurance-requirement-levels-playing-field-for-registrars-globally >> >> Rafik >> > -- ------------------------------------------------ "It is a disgrace to be rich and honoured in an unjust state" -Confucius ------------------------------------------------ Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus & Senior Scholar) Econ, York U., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3 email: [log in to unmask] Skype: slanfranco blog: http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com Phone: +1 613-476-0429 cell: +1 416-816-2852