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

[Liz Gasster <liz.gasster@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

Thank you Wendy for your offer.  I have not heard any feedback on the charter 
or on the draft motion.  Please let Wendy, Michael and I know by COB tomorrow 
(Friday) if you have any suggested changes to either the charter of the motion. 

Thanks, Liz

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendy Seltzer [mailto:wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 3:49 PM
To: Liz Gasster
Cc: gnso-whoissurvey-dt@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [gnso-whoissurvey-dt] Updated (final?) charter and draft motion 
for your review

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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Information Society Project Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at 
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