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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:34:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Sulzberger <jays@...ix.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: [Discuss] Public comments are invited on GNSO
 Council's WHOIS reports and recommendations. (fwd)



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  Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:45:08 -0400
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  Subject: [Discuss] Public comments are invited on GNSO Council's WHOIS reports
      and recommendations.

  http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-14sep07.htm

  Public comments are invited via email until 00:00 UTC (17:00
  PDT) on 30 October 2007 on the GNSO Council's WHOIS reports and
  recommendations.

  Submit comments to: whois-comments-2007@...nn.org.
  View comments at http://forum.icann.org/lists/whois-comments-2007/.

  Background

  In March, 2007, a WHOIS Task Force convened by the GNSO Council
  in June, 2005 completed its final report. The Task Force was
  asked to address important questions related to WHOIS. Key
  questions included the purpose of WHOIS service, which
  information should be available to the public, how to improve
  WHOIS accuracy and how to deal with conflicts between WHOIS
  requirements and relevant privacy laws. In the final report, a
  simple majority of members of the WHOIS Task Force endorsed a
  proposal called the "Operational Point of Contact" (OPOC).

  Under OPOC, every registrant would identify a new operational
  contact and the technical and administrative contact details
  would no longer be displayed. The final WHOIS Task Force Report
  of 12 March, 2007 is posted at
  http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/whois-services-final-tf-report-12mar07.htm.

  Following completion of the Task Force Report and public comment
  period, on 28 March the GNSO Council issued a resolution creating
  a WHOIS Working Group to examine three issues and to make
  recommendations concerning how current policies may be improved
  to address these issues:

     1. to examine the roles, responsibilities and requirements of
  the OPOC, and what happens if they are not fulfilled;
     2. to examine how legitimate interests will access
  unpublished registration data; and
     3. to examine whether publication of registration contact
  information should be based on the type of registered name holder
  (legal vs. natural persons) or the registrant's use of a domain
  name.

  The Whois Outcomes Working Group Report was finalized on 20
  August, 2007. It is posted at
  http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/icann-whois-wg-report-final-1-9.pdf
  [PDF, 213K]. On 6 September 2007, the GNSO Council approved a
  resolution which, among other things, establishes a schedule for
  consideration of the WHOIS Task Force Report and the WHOIS
  Working Group Report. This schedule includes solicitation of
  further public comments and culminates in a public Council
  discussion and vote on 31 October 2007 during the Los Angeles
  ICANN.

  In addition, the resolution calls for ICANN staff to prepare a
  type of "draft final report" that references the Task Force
  Report, the Working Group Charter and the Working Group Report
  and which includes an overall description of the process. The
  following document, entitled, Staff Overview of Recent GNSO WHOIS
  Activity [PDF, 77K], has been prepared in response to the Council
  Resolution. It contains the full text of the GNSO resolution and
  the schedule for GNSO Council consideration of the reports.

  Again, further public comments are invited via email until 00:00
  UTC (17:00 PDT) on 30 October 2007 on the GNSO Council's WHOIS
  reports and recommendations referenced above and summarized in
  the Staff Overview of Recent GNSO WHOIS Activity [PDF,
  77K]. Submit comments to: whois-comments-2007@...nn.org. View
  comments at http://forum.icann.org/lists/whois-comments-2007/.

  --
  Glen de Saint Géry
  GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
  gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
  http://gnso.icann.org


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