[gnso-dow123] FW: Last week's WHOIS call

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

Dear all,
 
Attached - apologies for its lateness - is the preliminary summary of last
week's WHOIS Task Force conference call. 
 
All the best, Maria
 
WHOIS Task Force conference call

11th October 2005

 

Preliminary summary

 

Participants

 


Jordyn Buchanan (Task Force Chair, Reg'r) 

David Maher (Reg'y)

Ken Stubbs  (Reg'y) 

Philip Colebrook (Reg'y) 

Ross Rader (Reg'r) 

Glen de Saint Gery

Kathy Kleiman (NCUC)

Tom Keller (Reg'r)

 

 

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 

Maggie Mansourkia (ISPCP)

Steve Metalitz (IPC) 

Niklas Lagergren (IPC)

Marilyn Cade (BC)

David Fares (BC)

Sarah Deutsch (BC) 

Tony Harris (ISPCP 

Wendy Seltzer (ALAC)

 

 Glen de Saint Gery - GNSO Secretariat

Maria Farrell - GNSO Policy Officer

 

 

 

 

1           Public comments on procedure for resolution of conflicts with
national laws

 

The task force reviewed the public comments received to decide whether it
wished to make any changes to the policy recommendations or the recommended
procedure.  

 

Decisions

*       Following a discussion of each public comment received, it was
decided to submit the task force report in its current form (plus the
summary of public comments) and not to amend the recommendation/advice or
change the decision of the task force to forward the report to the GNSO
Council.  

*       MF to produce the final task force report and circulate to the task
force. 

*       Constituencies that wish to may provide short statements about
suggested changes to the procedure and advice that occurred after the
submission of the constituency statements but that have not been accepted by
the task force. 

*       The straw poll on changes to the policy procedure - taken during the
task force conference call on 

 

Actions

*       Constituencies providing follow up statements to do so by close of
business on Monday, October 17, 2005. 

*       MF will submit the final task force report including any follow up
statements to the GNSO Council.  

 

 

2                                Purpose of WHOIS

The task force discussed progress on the purpose of whois, specifically the
work of the technical and legal sub-groups and defining the terms in respect
of any legal or technical issues with relation to WHOIS.   There had been
more progress on the technical definition than the legal definition. 

 

Decisions

*       The two sub-groups working on defining technical/legal issues in
relation to WHOIS will resume their work by email. 

*       The task force will work on-list on developing a list of issues it
thinks WHOIS is intended to resolve. 

*       The follow-up conference call conversation will discuss how to
modify the list of issues this to deal with the specific types of issues in
scope. 

 

 

3          Next task force conference call

The next conference call will be held at the same time on 25th October,
2005. 

 

 N.B.  The task force will begin to meet weekly if sufficient progress is
not made on-list between now and 25th October.