[gnso-dow123] More questions for 3/15 discussion re recommendation 2

["Milton Mueller" <Mueller@xxxxxxx>]

1. In your letter of December 20, you wrote: "might it be preferable to
focus GNSO attention on developing improvements to Whois policies that
will allow for the broadest possible harmony with local regulations?"
Can you elaborate on what you meant by that and perhaps suggest specific
ways in which the GNSO might do this? I ask this because the
recommendation under dispute was intended precisely to harmonize the
WHOIS requirements of the RAA with national privacy regulations.

2. Do you agree that the trade off, implicit in any Whois requirements,
between registrant privacy and the desire of other users to collect
information about domain holders is a policy calculation to be settled
through the GNSO's bottom up policy development process, and not
determined top-down by ICANN staff? 






Dr. Milton Mueller
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
http://www.digital-convergence.org
http://www.internetgovernance.org