[gnso-dataprotection-thickwhois] Start to work?

[Don Blumenthal <dblumenthal@xxxxxxx>]

Hello.

First, for  subteam members who weren't on the call yesterday, we decided to 
move the privacy and data protection group's priority up because of the 
discussions since last week. The conversation also took up a significant part 
of the weekly meeting. I volunteered to get the process going.

I really don't know how much work we have to do. The first step will be to 
focus the issues. A lot have been kicked around but many of them won't be 
relevant. In addition, it may be that some or all of the questions have 
relatively simple answers.

Some thoughts and questions to start:

I'd like to set a call up. I'll be in all-day meetings at PIR offices on Monday 
and Tuesday and traveling on Thursday, so I'll work with Marika to set a poll 
up for the rest of this week and Wednesday and Friday of the next one. I'll 
also ask about a phone bridge, although we may have more flexibility with 
Skype. Does everyone have an account? I also can use it to call US landlines 
without any charges.

I still haven't received a response from the person I know in the GC's office 
about whether the ICANN Procedure For Handling WHOIS Conflicts with Privacy 
Law, http://www.icann.org/en/processes/icann-procedure-17jan08.htm, ever has 
been invoked. Does anybody know or have a source we can ask who will answer the 
question?

We have had some good comments and questions from WG members who aren't part of 
this group. I want to make sure we keep others in the loop on what we're doing, 
maybe with periodic reports and requests for thoughts.

We'll want to figure a way to get contributions from the group of experts who 
were part of the VRSN-PIR thin-thick transition.

I think that covers it. Please feel free to post on this list about what 
questions we should cover, thoughts on the general list and call discussions, 
if you have specific issue areas that we can draw on, and whatever else seems 
appropriate.

Don

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