RE: [gnso-whois-study] WHOIS study group call Tuesday 8 April 2008 at 15:00 UTC]

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Liz,

There are times when people call for studies because
they don't want to see any changes made to the status
quo.  Choosing to engage in studies rather than
choosing to craft new policy [perhaps one that
respects privacy concerns] can be a rather effective
stalling/delaying tactic.  Accordingly, sometimes one
needs to question what has led to a decision to
commence a set of studies.  

I consider the fact that the GAC has called for
studies and know in my gut that no governmental policy
wonk has ever bothered to review the comprehensive
WHOIS Survey produced by Paul Kane's group in 2001 or
asked to examine CENTR documents such as:  "the CENTR
Position on WHOIS", "WHOIS and Naming Policy", "WHOIS
and Data Privacy:  Overview of current practices",
"WHOIS and Data Protection Requirements", "WHOIS Abuse
Patterns", etc.  

Clearly, a lot of studies have already been done on
many aspects of WHOIS, but the parties that are
pushing for new studies are most likely totally
unaware that these studies exist.  

Now might be a good time for ICANN to start acting
like the coordinator that it is supposed to be.  

Why not start by aggregating all of these
above-mentioned studies and others into a single
repository.  Ben Edelman did some WHOIS studies, and
so did the Microsoft research team, as did the GAO --
you recall perhaps "Internet Management: Prevalence of
False Contact Information for Registered Domain Names?
 

Why duplicate work that has already been done?  Unless
of course, the primary goal is to endlessly stall the
process...

regards,
Danny


--- Liz Gasster <liz.gasster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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