RE: improving the registrar transfer process

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin () melbourneit com au>]

> > Accountability.  Responsibility.
>
> I agree with you on this 100%.  ICANN needs to enforce there 
> current policies.  

I agree too.

> Look at totalnic/pacnames.  They have been 
> refusing transfer requests years now until very very recent.  
> What has ICANN done about all those complaints and violations 
> that has been well documented?
> nothing!
>
> ICANN needs to stop just accepting money and start enforcing 
> policies...


Interestingly, the ICANN equivalent in Australia (auDA), does
pro-actively enforce policies, and even took Capital Networks to court
on the basis that they could be de-accredited as a registrar for .au, if
they continued not to allow transfers for .com.

See:

    http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCAFC/2004/324.html

The original judgment is at:

    http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/2004/808.html