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ICANN-accredited registrars and ICANN commenced a series of direct bilateral negotiations to amend and update the current Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) in November, 2011.   These negotiations are currently underway.'

Pre-Toronto Update

Since the Prague meeting,   ICANN and the Registrars have engaged in six additional negotiation sessions, including two all-day, in-person meetings held in Washington D.C. (one of which was attended by Governmental Advisory Committee members and law enforcement representatives).  The sessions have been supplemented by information and document exchanges between discussions. The negotiations since Prague have largely focused on the key areas of Whois verification and data retention, which are part of the 12 GAC/law enforcement recommendations.  ICANN and the registrars have also continued discussion on the GNSO recommendations and specific requests by ICANN and the registrars, such as supporting DNSSEC and IPv6. More details are available on the individual meeting reports posted on the WIKI.registrar negotiation teams have concluded their negotiations, and have published the Proposed Final 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement for public comment at:

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-22apr13-en.htm

For a detailed overview of the improvements to the Proposed Final 2013 RAA, please listen to  the webinar recording   or view the slides from the webinar conducted by ICANN Staff on April 30th  

Negotiation Goals/Objectives 

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