Re: [gnso-whoissurvey-dt] Updated (final?) charter and draft motion for your review

[Wendy Seltzer <wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/30/2011 07:26 PM, Liz Gasster wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Attached please find an updated Charter redline and a draft motion (to ask 
> the GNSO Council to approve the charter) for your review.
...
> 2.       Regarding the draft motion - please feel free to suggest changes.  
> Once the group approves the language of the motion, we would ask Wendy 
> Seltzer, as Council liaison, whether she would offer the motion to the 
> Council for its consideration.
> 

Thanks Liz,

Group, is this motion (Liz's draft pasted below) something you'd like
the Council to consider at its Sept. 22 meeting?  The motion and
document deadline for that meeting will be September 14.

--Wendy

Draft Motion to approve charter for Whois Survey Working Group (WS-WG)
Whereas there have been discussions for several years on the adequacy of
the current set of Whois tools to provide the necessary functions to
support existing and proposed Whois service policy requirements,
and there have been questions as to the adequacy of these tools for use
in an IDN environment (see: joint SSAC Working Group on
Internationalized Registration Data,
https://community.icann.org/display/gnsossac/Internationalized+Registration+Data+Working+Group+-+Home
),
and there have been extensive discussions about the requirements of the
Whois service with respect to Registry and registrar operations in the
GNSO community (see: history of Whois policy activity:
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/whois-services/ ),
and new architectures and tools have been developed and suggested by the
technical community (see: development of IRIS RFC by the IETF:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4698 and initial IETF discussion of
RESTful and current draft:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/weirds/current/maillist.html and
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sheng-weirds-icann-rws-dnrd-00 );
Whereas on 07 May 2009, the GNSO Council resolved that Policy Staff,
with the assistance of technical staff and GNSO Council members as
required, should collect and organize a comprehensive set of
requirements for the Whois service policy tools;
Whereas on 26 March 2010, Staff published a first draft of a Whois
Service Requirements Inventory report, soliciting input from SOs and ACs;
Whereas on 31 May 2010, Staff posted a draft final report which
reflected SO and AC input, soliciting input from the GNSO Council and
community at the Brussels ICANN Public Meeting;
Whereas on 29 July 2010, Staff published the Inventory of Whois Service
Requirements – Final Report;
Whereas on 19 May 2011, the GNSO Council asked Staff to issue a call for
expertise seeking community volunteers to form a Whois Survey Drafting
Team for the purpose of developing a survey of views regarding Whois
Service Requirements;
Whereas in July 2011, several of these volunteers drafted a proposed
charter for a Whois Survey “Working Group”, preferring the term “Working
Group” to “Drafting Team” in this case ;
Resolved,
The GNSO Council convenes a Whois Survey Working Group (WS-WG) of
interested volunteers to draft, implement, and analyze the results of a
survey measuring the level of support for various technical requirements
outlined in the final Inventory of Whois Service Requirements Report of
29 July 2010.
The GNSO Council further approves the proposed charter for the Whois
Survey Working Group as defined here: <insert link here>
In accordance with this charter, the Whois Survey Working Group plans to
produce a draft survey to be delivered to the GNSO Council for approval
by March 2012. Following approval, the Whois Survey Working Group plans
to then conduct this survey for a period not less than thirty (30) days,
delivering a draft report describing survey results and recommendations
for next steps to the GNSO Council.


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