RE: [gnso-dow123] Revised Preliminary Task Force Report on Whois Services

["Metalitz, Steven" <met@xxxxxxx>]

Ross is right that I proposed to change "could" to "should" but I
certainly will not insist on it. 

Steve 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Ross Rader
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:48 PM
To: Maria Farrell
Cc: gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [gnso-dow123] Revised Preliminary Task Force Report on
Whois Services

Jordyn/Maria;

This particular phrase keeps changing back and forth between "could"  
and "should". I don't believe that we have consensus that awareness of
the contact types *should* be approved, in fact I and others have spoken
against this type of activity being included in policy on grounds that
ICANN consumer protection or consumer awareness are not within ICANN's
scope. The last version said "could", this version says "should".

 From what I can tell from the redline history, this was changed
pursuant to Steve's draft after the earlier changes were reviewed and
accepted by the TF on the call two weeks ago. I don't believe that this
last change was discussed before it was accepted and merged into the
draft we have before us.

My strong preference would be to revert back to the prior language that
"awareness of registrants about the contacts could be improved..." on
the basis that it is more consistent with the TF discussions and the
text that immediately follows the statement.

"The task force generally agreed that awareness of registrants about the
contacts should be improved, especially if a different type of contact -
the OPoC - was introduced."

Were there some level of agreement to the proposal that the registrars
floated that consumer awareness about the new policy be conducted
through the implementation of best practices at the registrar level as
we have done in the past, then we could probably support changing this
statement to "should", but until there is some agreement on the tactics,
I don't believe that we can move on to making the statement that we
*should* raise awareness.

Thanks,

-ross

On 16-Nov-06, at 3:53 PM, Maria Farrell wrote:

> Dear task force members,
>
> Attached is the revised Preliminary Task Force Report on Whois 
> Services ahead of the scheduled vote on the report during next 
> Monday's call (20 November).
>
> There are two versions; one with changes marked, and a clean version.
>
> All the best, Maria
> <Preliminary TF Report on Whois Services DRAFT 5 changes marked.doc> 
> <Preliminary TF Report on Whois Services DRAFT 5 CLEAN.doc>