[gnso-whois-wg] Shifting the Financial Burden

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am reminded of earlier industry commitments:

Verisign uwho Project -- In connection with the new
Registry Agreements, VeriSign agreed to allocate a
part of the $200 million that we have committed for
"research, development, and infrastructure
improvements to the .com, .net and .org Registries" to
"design and develop a Universal Whois Service that
will allow public access and effective use of Whois
across all Registries and TLDs" (see Appendix W). We
will, insofar as is feasible in view of our dependence
on the cooperation of third parties, strive to achieve
significant progress in implementing a Universal Whois
Service by December 31, 2002. This would be a
genuinely universal WHOIS service, in other words
applicable to all TLDs, including ccTLDs. 

https://www.centr.org/docs/2002/02/centr-ga13-whois.pdf

Perhaps we need to think in terms of finally
developing a centralized WHOIS that would shift the
exercise of the REVEAL function to a centralized WHOIS
operator so that the community would benefit from a
"single" REVEAL pricing program that would reflect the
economies of scale possible by way of an offering from
a single provider of this service.  




       
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