[gnso-thickwhoispdp-wg] Two items that may be relevant

[Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

There are two issues that I understand may be 
under discussion in the RAA amendment process 
that might have an impact on this PDP.
1. The September RAA Negotiation update 
(http://tinyurl.com/Sept-RAA) includes (Item 11) 
"The registrars have requested that the 
obligation to provide a registrar-­-operator 
Whois service be limited to “thin” registries 
(i.e., .com and .net), as “thick” registries 
provide centralized public data to Whois data. 
Registries in the New gTLD Program are required 
to be “thick” and follow service level 
agreements." The status says that there is 
agreement in principle. If that is a done-deal, 
they we can take that question off of our list.
2. There has been discussion of ICANN requiring a 
uniform presentation of Whois information by all 
registrars (http://tinyurl.com/Whois-display). I 
don't see this in the list of RAA topics, so I am 
not sure of the status. If this too is a 
done-deal, then uniformity of display no longer 
needs to be on our list. (Thanks to Michele Neylon for the heads up on this).
Perhaps Volker can update us on both of these.

Alan