[gnso-dow123] Preliminary summary of task force call on 14 June 2005

["Maria Farrell" <maria.farrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,
 
Below is the preliminary summary of this week's Whois conference call. 
 
All the best, Maria
 
 

 

WHOIS conference call

14 June 2005 

 

Preliminary summary

 

Participants

 


Jordyn Buchanan (Task Force Co-Chair, Reg'r)

Ross Rader (Reg'r)

Tim Ruiz (Reg'r)

Ken Stubbs (Reg'y)

David Maher (Reg'y) 

Milton Mueller (NCUC)

Kathy Kleiman (NCUC) 

 

Reg'r  - Registrars Constituency

Reg'y - gTLD Registries Constituency

BC - Business & Commercial Users Constituency

NCUC - Non-Commercial Users Constituency)

IPC - Intellectual Property  Interests Constituency 

ISPCP - Internet Service Providers & Connectivity Providers Constituency

ALAC - At Large Advisory Committee 

Steve Metalitz (IPC)

David Fares (BC)

Greg Ruth (ISPCP)

Maggie Mansourkia (ISPCP)

Glen de Saint Gery - GNSO Secretariat

Maria Farrell - GNSO Policy Officer

 

 

 

 

1          Recommendation 2 on conflicts with national laws

Steve Metalitz and Kathy Kleiman had circulated their revised draft to the
mailing list several days previously.  As requested by the task force, they
divided the document into a recommendation and a procedure staff could use
to implement it.  

 

The text of the procedure still contains the edits suggested previously  -
e.g. by Tom Keller - and the drafters have not amended these.  

 

The current version of the recommendation was sent by Kathy Kleiman to the
list on Monday, 13 June (subject line: Fwd: [gnso-dow123] Policy and Advice:
Recommendation 2) 

 

Decisions

*       The task force has one week to comment on and finalize it for
circulation for constituency statements.  
*       As the previous public comments on the relevant task force were not
germane to this recommendation, we will solicit constituency statements
pursuant to section 7(d) of the PDP.  
*       Once we have received constituency statements, Maria Farrell will
craft a draft preliminary report and we will determine whether or not any
changes to the recommendations are appropriate in light of the constituency
statements.  
*       August 2 is the target date to vote on the recommendations in the
preliminary report, and to make it available for public comments.  At that
point, a public comment period begins which should run through about August
23.  
*       The task force then would consider whether any modifications need to
be made to the recommendations in light of the public comment.  If no
modifications are needed,a Final Report that incorporates the public
comments would be forwarded to the GNSO Council, probably at the end of
August 2005.

 

Actions

*       Jordyn will send a note to the task force outlining the steps to be
taken.  (This was done immediately after the task force call on 14 June,
2005).
*       Maria to assist Jordyn in determining if no round of constituency
comments more germane to this recommendation has already been conducted. 
*        Initial suggestions will be submitted no later than June 16, and
further edits may take place over the following few days.   
*       On Tuesday 21 June the recommendation will be distributed to
constituencies for formal comments.  Deadline for responses will  be July
21. 
*       Ross Rader to submit his comments on the use of the term 'the whois
system'.  

 

 

2                   Purpose of Whois - questions for public forum in
Luxembourg

The task force discussed the questions to be put to the public during the
GNSO public forum in Luxembourg on the purpose of whois and the ways people
use the various contact types.   

 

The task force also discussed possible information gathering on the purpose
of whois, particularly regarding the meaning of purpose in the data
protection context.  

 

The task force also discussed the purpose of the different contacts within
the whois system. (e.g. administrative contact, technical contact, etc.)

 

Decisions

*       Task force representatives will go back to their constituencies for
constituency statements on the purpose of whois "in the context of ICANN's
mission and relevant core values, international and national laws protecting
privacy of natural persons, international and national laws
that relate specifically to the WHOIS service, and the changing nature of
Registered Name Holders." (terms of reference text) 
*       Task force will discuss on the list the definition of purpose and
having Maria and/or others gather information on this topic, as well as
having an outside expert address the meaning of purpose in data protection. 

 

 

Actions

.                    Task force representatives to produce constituency
statements on the purpose of whois "in the context of ICANN's mission and
relevant core values, international and national laws protecting privacy of
natural persons, international and national laws that relate specifically to
the WHOIS service, and the changing nature of Registered Name Holders" by
Tuesday, 21 July 2005.

 

.                    Task force representatives will also ask their
constituencies (registrants) how they populate the contact fields. This will
be a supplemental question to the question on the purpose of whois. 

 

.                    Registrar representatives are to request that
constituency members provide information on what instruction and guidance
they provide to registrants about the correct data to provide for each
contact type, and to indicate whether there is default data populated into
each contact type. This will be a supplemental question to the question on
the purpose of whois. 

 

 

3                               Next task force call:

Task Force members have asked for the number of calls to be reduced and for
work to proceed on the mailing list as much as possible.  

 

The next conference call of this task force will be held on June 28th, 2005.