[gnso-whois-wg] Statement of Interest
1. Current occupation, employer and position Business wise I am a self-employed ICT consultant, working especially on breaching the Digital divide. Aside my business activities I'm chair/president of ISOC Belgium, certified ALS and signatory of EURALO MoU. Secretary of a Belgian users organisation (TIK vzw) representing customers of the most important ISP's in Belgium (10.000 individual members today). 2. Type of work performed in 1 above General management of associations. Deploying an Ombudsman service, which we actually run for about 30 months now, handling a lot of domain name issues. Furthermore we are in final phase of setting up a specific association regrouping the hosting provider, smaller access providers and web masters. Basic goal : putting in place a Code of Conduct and regulatory procedures for handling domain names related to hosting and access services. Delivering advice to governmental bodies and close collaboration with national TLD. 3. Financial ownership or management leadership of registries, registrars or other firms that are interested parties in Whois No financial interest or ownership position. 4. Nature of your interest in Whois Based on the cases handled with our Ombudsman, I am specifically interested in the possible reform of procedures in WHOIS, protecting privacy information of personal data, without disrupting the technical handling of issues by the registrars/agents and TLD's. Rudi Vansnick /President Internet Society Belgium vzw Treasurer ISOC-ECC Barcelona-Spain Secretaris TIK vzw Peter Peterschapsprogramma Social Profit EROV/ GSM: +32 475 28 16 32 Tel: +32 70 77 39 39 ISOC Belgium <http://www.isoc.be/> - ISOC-ECC & ISOC.EU <http://www.isoc-ecc.org/> |