<font color="#996633"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633" face="verdana, sans-serif">Hello Tapani Tarvainen,</font></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633" face="verdana, sans-serif">This discussion is very relevant for an ICANN working group examining domain name post expiry issues. </font></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633" face="verdana, sans-serif">While you suggest a Domain /subdomain-name for every ISP's customers, independent owners of domain names land up in email continuity issues, BECAUSE OF their domain ownership, at times when they fail to renew their domain names. When domain names are not renewed either due to choice or because the user doesn't remember to do so, their email is discontinued (in most cases) with no possible information to the user about what is bounced or discarded.</font></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633" face="verdana, sans-serif">If such creative solutions could exist for ISPs to offer email portability, easier solutions could be thought of for the Registrars to offer a similar solution to the Domain Registrants (at the time of expiry).</font></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633" face="verdana, sans-serif">Sivasubramanian Muthusamy</font></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div></font></font></font><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Tapani Tarvainen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tapani.tarvainen@effi.org">tapani.tarvainen@effi.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:34:43PM -0500, Milton L Mueller (<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu">mueller@syr.edu</a>) wro<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> There is a very simple way to get a fully portable email address:<br>
> register a domain name. ;-)<br>
<br>
</div>That is also a rather obvious solution for ISPs if this law passes:<br>
just register a new domain name for each customer.<br>
It costs little enough nowadays (dollar per month or so,<br>
and I'd bet someone like Tokelau would make them an even<br>
cheaper offer).<br>
<br>
Alternatively, just giving each customer their own subdomain<br>
with company suffix (<a href="mailto:user@user.company.example.com">user@user.company.example.com</a>)<br>
would make redirection cheap: just adjust MX records.<br>
<br>
Or a number of ISPs might for a common company just for<br>
managing email addresses, by using a common 2nd level<br>
domain and give each user their own 3rd level domain<br>
and just manage MX records for them.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Legislatively granting end users a property right in a domain name<br>
> and user ID of an ISP they no longer pay<br>
<br>
</div>Perhaps the idea is that email addresses should not be associated<br>
with ISPs and their domains at all, that is, effectively force them<br>
to register independent domains for their email customers.<br>
<br>
Of course it's consumers who end up paying for it, as always.<br>
But if sufficiently large number of them want it, it'll be<br>
cheaper if it's mandatory - at the expense of those who<br>
don't want it, of course.<br>
<br>
--<br>
<font color="#888888">Tapani Tarvainen<br>
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