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

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Liz,

Thanks for the reminder in the attachment about the
Upcoming ICANN Whois Data Accuracy Audit, planned for
the 2007 calendar year... but I'm confused... I still
see the job posting for the Contactual Compliance
Manager whose duties will be "to conduct studies and
audits on the accuracy of the WHOIS directory and make
recommendations for changes"... has the position
actually been filled?

regards,
Danny


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

> 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 is probably out-of-date, this was done before they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?
> >
> 
> 
> 
>      
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