[kictanet] Public comments on GNSO Council's WHOIS outputs invited

[Alex Gakuru]

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 at icann.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unpublished registration data; and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 at icann.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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