[gnso-dow123] Note to council on Notice recommendation

["Jordyn A. Buchanan" <jordyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As we discussed on today's call, a concern has been raised that the  
recommendation on Notice to registrants, currently before the  
Council, may be viewed as some kind of waiver of registrant's privacy  
rights.  This was not the intent of the recommendation, and not  
something that we had originally considered within the task force.   
As a result, we agreed on today's call that I would send a note to  
Bruce and the Council requesting further consideration of this issue.

Here's the request I propose to send.  Please let me know (quickly)  
if anyone believes this doesn't correctly reflect our agreement from  
the call today:

Dear Bruce:

In discussions of the Whois TF this week, a concern was raised that  
the current proposal relating to improving notice to registrants  
regarding the use of their contact details in the Whois system may be  
viewed as a waiver of registrants privacy rights.  It was not the  
intent of the task force that the recommendation act as any sort of  
waiver, but this was not an issue that we considered during the work  
of the task force.  We do believe that this is an important issue,  
however, and believe that it would be premature for the Council to  
adopt the policy recommendations without considering it.  As a  
result, I am writing to request that the Council either:

a) Refer the recommendation back to the Task Force for further  
consideration of this specific issue; alternatively, the Council may  
want to consider this specific issue itself, or

b) Delay adoption of this recommendation until such time as the full  
range of issues currently being considered by the task force have  
resulted in a broader set of recommendations that may render this  
issue moot.

Thanks,

Jordyn A. Buchanan
Chair, Whois TF