RE: [gnso-whois-study] WHOIS study group call Tuesday 8 April 2008 at 15:00 UTC]
All, To Danny's point, attached is a summary that I prepared of all of the WHOIS studies I was aware of as of September 2007. Clearly it is not a complete list, because Dan identifies some studies below that I wasn't aware of, at least the intent was there! This could be updated but at least it is a starting point. Also, the info on the ICANN accuracy study is probably out-of-date, this was done before they initiated their efforts I believe, I would need to follow up with the compliance group on that. Dan, thanks for reminding me of this. It was done to inventory what we were aware of at the time. Thanks, Liz -----Original Message----- From: Danny Younger [mailto:dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:48 PM To: Liz Gasster; Stéphane Van Gelder; 'GNSO.SECRETARIAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; gnso-whois-study@xxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [gnso-whois-study] WHOIS study group call Tuesday 8 April 2008 at 15:00 UTC] 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: > > Comments from others? > ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com Attachment:
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