RE: [gnso-dow123] DRAFT redline of recommendation 2

["Tim Ruiz" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is the Task Force allowed to change/set the Terms of Reference? I still
don't see where the TOR officially became resolving RAA conflicts with
national law, which is what this recommendation really addresses, not
privacy.

Tim


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Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [gnso-dow123] DRAFT redline of recommendation 2

Ross:

> Where might one find this documentation. Any pointers would be 
> appreciated.
>
> ...also, I'd still like to hear why this approach was selected over
> other options and how this relates to the terms of reference for this
> task force.

A good starting point for you might be the TF 2 report, which includes 
discussion of national privacy laws and a fairly lengthy appendix 
comparing elements of those laws, along with the conclusion that "The 
Task Force belives that there is an ongoing risk of conflict between a 
registrars or registries legal obligations under local privacy laws and 
their contractual obligations to ICANN."

To answer your questions, until Vittorio proposed differing contracts 
by country, I'm not aware of any other options being proposed to this 
particular problem.  I'm sure the task force could consider the merits 
of such proposals if they were presented.

The relation to the terms of reference is that TF2 investigated 
national privacy laws as part of its work to determine what data 
elements to display, and the TF reached the conclusion that there was 
some potential for the existing requirements to cause conflict without 
being certain of what the specific conflict might be given the broad 
range of jurisdictions, so this procedure was developed as a general 
mechanism for resolving such conflicts.

Jordyn