Re: [gnso-thickwhois-dt] a modest amendment to our charter point on "privacy and data protection"

[Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have surveyed the ALAC on the new wording that Avri has supplied. 
The consensus (but not unanimous) view is that the current wording in 
the Proposed charter should stand.
The issue raised in Avri's message that I have copied below formed 
part (but not all) of the rationale. Although I personally do not 
believe that there is any substantive issue related to mentioned 
rights and thick/thin Whois, *IF* this is indeed an issue, then is 
has far wider impact that the narrow scope of this PDP allows, and 
should be the subject of a separate PDP.
Alan

At 15/10/2012 08:54 PM, Avri Doria wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In sense though ww will also be talking about how thick whois is to 
> be done by all registries.
> Both in the new gTLDs and the incumbents, even those already doing thick.
> So this affects every Registry, every Registrar and every Registrant.
>
> And there are, in my view, jurisdictional implications in Thick 
> Whois that are different from Thin Whois.  Most of these center 
> around the fact that once the Registry also has the Whois info as 
> opposed to just the Registrar, people in Canada, e.g., no longer 
> have the data privacy, consumer etc rights they have in Canada, 
> because someone can base demands etc on the laws of the Registry's 
> country of business as well.
> avri