[gnso-irtp-b-jun09] RE: [WHOIS-WG] Initial WHOIS Service Requirements Report for Council review and discussion

[Liz Gasster <liz.gasster@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michele and all,

I do want to encourage the WG to read the WHOIS service requirements initial 
report and provide comments if you have any.  Also, Steve Sheng, the primary 
author of the report, and I would be glad to provide an overview of the report 
and respond to questions if that would be helpful to the group.

I think it is important to emphasize that the purpose of the report is not to 
make any policy recommendations, but rather to inventory technical 
"requirements" that would be needed to address deficiencies in WHOIS that have 
been identified to-date and also to include technical requirements needed to 
support policy proposals that have been suggested in the past.

Specifically, we are hoping for feedback by May 17 on the following questions:

  1) Have we adequately identified the origins of each requirement and provided 
sufficient background?

  2) Did we miss any important requirements of or improvements to WHOIS that 
have been discussed to-date? 

  3) Do you have any suggestions on how we can improve the clarity of the 
document? 

  4) any other comments are welcome.

Our plan is to incorporate the feedback into the draft report and publish the 
final report before the Brussels meeting.

Thanks for your interest in the report!  

Liz



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Report for Council review and discussion

This may have implications on IRTP etc.,


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Patrick Vande Walle <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5 April 2010 18:08:24 GMT+01:00
> To: <whois-wg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [WHOIS-WG] Initial WHOIS Service Requirements Report for Council 
> review and discussion
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> I am forwarding this document sent to SSAC last week. I guess we will have it 
> receive for comments through other, more official, ways. Anyway, as always 
> the clock is running fast, and even more in the At-Large context. So I 
> thought an early notice would allow us to send a meaningful reply with 
> reasonable deadlines.  In this case, comments are by close of business day on 
> Monday, May 17.
> 
> Yet another WHOIS document from ICANN, you may say. This one is specially 
> interesting in that it intends to set the requirements for a new WHOIS 
> system. Would you believe it, it also contains words like "privacy" and 
> "access control" .  
> 
> My personal comments are below, but I suggest you read the document before 
> the comments . 
> 
> I will add that this document is really about defining the WHOIS *service* . 
> It should be obvious that the current WHOIS protocol (RFC3912) is unable to 
> deliver what is required in the appended document.   Hencer my question below 
> to Steve Crocker if ICANN intends to go down the IETF standards process or do 
> its own thing (which would be bad IMHO) . 
> 
> I am willing to hold the pen to summarize the comments.
> 
> Patrick 
> 
> 
>