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

[Liz Gasster <liz.gasster@xxxxxxxxx>]

All,

We can get an update from Stacy Burnette, but here is a full description of the 
program:  http://www.icann.org/whois/whois-data-accuracy-program-27apr07.pdf.  
This accuracy compliance activity is being undertaken by ICANN 
services/compliance staff, and it is not being done for policy "benefit".  
Staff may be using some outside resources -- I don't know the answer to that -- 
but it is an ICANN effort, not an independent one.  It was included in my 
September summary because it is a WHOIS study that is underway, and it may 
yield data that is useful to the Council as well as for other purposes.

There were some suggestions in the recent comment period to study WHOIS 
accuracy, so these suggestions are included in the suggestion summary that 
Lorrie and I prepared.  I agree that it makes little sense to do 
separate/additional studies on the same thing.  It is good to note this, as has 
been done in previous Council discussions on the topic.  If folks view WHOIS 
accuracy as a high-priority topic, then I suggest that we could invite Stacy to 
brief us and learn more about the current status of ICANN's accuracy study, and 
then explore whether that needs to be augmented in some way to meet our needs.

Thanks, Liz





-----Original Message-----
From: Danny Younger [mailto:dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:33 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,

At issue is who will be conducting what studies?

If ICANN Staff has committed itself to a study on the
accuracy of the WHOIS directory by way of a person
soon to be hired, then this is somewhat different than
a study conducted by an independent third party for
the benefit of the GNSO and/or GAC.  Are we to have
two different studies by two different parties on the
same topic?

If we agree that one party or more parties should be
conducting an accuracy study, then that narrows the
field of remaining possible studies once the exact
remit for the first study is understood.

Can you make it very clear for us exactly what the
Contractual Compliance Manager intends to study?

Thanks,
Danny




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