Changes

There has been some controversy regarding ICANN's right to unilaterally amend the '''RA''' and other agreements. On February 5th, 2013, [[ICANN]] published a new version of the '''RA''' with language that gave the organization unilateral right to amend the contract between them and [[Registries]]. A public comment period that followed the February version saw 30 comments that opposed the "right to amend" language.<ref>[http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/09/05/meltdown-ii-the-unilateral-right-to-amend/ The Unilateral Right to Amend, Internet Governance.org]Published 5 Sept 2013, Retrieved 10 Sept 2013</ref>  

There has been some controversy regarding ICANN's right to unilaterally amend the '''RA''' and other agreements. On February 5th, 2013, [[ICANN]] published a new version of the '''RA''' with language that gave the organization unilateral right to amend the contract between them and [[Registries]]. A public comment period that followed the February version saw 30 comments that opposed the "right to amend" language.<ref>[http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/09/05/meltdown-ii-the-unilateral-right-to-amend/ The Unilateral Right to Amend, Internet Governance.org]Published 5 Sept 2013, Retrieved 10 Sept 2013</ref>  

===2023 Vote on Global Amendments===

===2023 Vote on Global Amendments===

On 19 January 2023, [[contracted parties]] began voting on the proposed 2023 Global Amendments to the Base Generic Top-level Domain Registry Agreement and 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement ([[RAA]]). The proposed global amendments specify operational requirements for providing Registration Data Directory Services ([[RDDS]]) via [[RDAP]] and detail the sunset of certain obligations for registries and registrars to provide RDDS via the WHOIS protocols. Contracted parties have 60 days to approve or reject the proposed global amendments. Voting is carried out by eBallot, a secure third-party online voting platform operated by Votenet. For approval, a majority threshold will have to be met for gTLD registries (over 50 percent) and ICANN-accredited registrars (90 percent).<ref>[https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-contracted-parties-set-to-vote-on-rdap-amendments-12-01-2023-en Contracted Parties to vote on RDAP Amendments, ICANN Blogs]</ref>  

On 19 January 2023, [[CPH|contracted parties]] began voting on the proposed 2023 Global Amendments to the Base Generic Top-level Domain Registry Agreement and 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement ([[RAA]]). The proposed global amendments specify operational requirements for providing Registration Data Directory Services ([[Whois|RDDS]]) via [[RDAP]] and detail the sunset of certain obligations for registries and registrars to provide RDDS via the WHOIS protocols. Contracted parties have 60 days to approve or reject the proposed global amendments. Voting is carried out by eBallot, a secure third-party online voting platform operated by Votenet. For approval, a majority threshold will have to be met for gTLD registries (over 50 percent) and ICANN-accredited registrars (90 percent).<ref>[https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-contracted-parties-set-to-vote-on-rdap-amendments-12-01-2023-en Contracted Parties to vote on RDAP Amendments, ICANN Blogs]</ref>

 

==Resources==

==Resources==

*A list of TLDs with current RAs: [http://icannwiki.com/index.php/Category:TLDs_with_Registry_Agreements TLDs with Registry Agreements]

*A list of TLDs with current RAs: [http://icannwiki.com/index.php/Category:TLDs_with_Registry_Agreements TLDs with Registry Agreements]