On 02/09/2015 02:24, Bruce Tonkin wrote:
ICANN commits to enforcing its policy relating to the current WHOIS and any future gTLD Directory Service,
I'm getting a slight queasiness about "forward looking statements". In the event that a future gTLD Directory Service is approved and deployed, and that this includes a policy requiring specific data to be made available through it, undoubtedly ICANN should enforce that policy. However, it does strike me that this language could raise hackles that it implies (or at least carries the connotation of) commiting now to a certain vision of requirements for a future RDS that, as I understand it, has not yet reached consensus or been approved. So while the wording itself isn't technically faulty, the feel of it is challenging. Perhaps if we split it out into a separate statement on RDS we could be more clear that we don't mean to imply pre-approving that now? Something like "ICANN commits to enforcing its policy relating to the current WHOIS subject to applicable laws, and working with the community to explore structural changes to improve accuracy and access to gTLD registration data, as well as consider safeguards for protecting data. In the event that WHOIS is replaced or superceded by a future gTLD Directory Service with its own policies, the same commitment will apply to the enforcement of those future policies once they have been approved in due course." -- Malcolm Hutty | tel: +44 20 7645 3523 Head of Public Affairs | Read the LINX Public Affairs blog London Internet Exchange | http://publicaffairs.linx.net/ London Internet Exchange Ltd 21-27 St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RY Company Registered in England No. 3137929 Trinity Court, Trinity Street, Peterborough PE1 1DA