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

[MICHAEL YOUNG <myoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Liz thanks very much, I am happy to see this forwarded as is.

Best Regards,

Michael Young
M:647-289-1220




On 11-09-12 3:45 PM, "Liz Gasster" <liz.gasster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Wendy and all,
>
>Attached please find the final motion and draft charter for this working
>group.  No additional comments or edits were received.  With Michael's
>permission, I would like to ask Wendy to offer these to the GNSO Council
>for its consideration at the upcoming 22 September meeting, as has been
>mentioned previously.  As Wendy noted, the deadline to submit motions for
>the upcoming meeting is 14 September.
>
>Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
>Thanks, Liz
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Wendy Seltzer [mailto:wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 12:49 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+Registratio
>n+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.
>
>
>--
>Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx +1 914-374-0613 Fellow, Yale Law
>School Information Society Project Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet &
>Society at Harvard University http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
>https://www.chillingeffects.org/
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>
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