I volunteered to look at the implementation plan to implement the recommendation of the Thick Whois GNSO PDP. To very briefly recap the background, for most gTLDs (and all of the new ones), the Whois information is maintained by the registry. For ,com, .net and .jobs, the registry only maintains a minimum of information (primarily who the registrar is and when the domain expires) and the registrar maintains the bulk of the information including the identity and contact information of the registrant (subject to privacy/proxy issues). The PDP considered whether all registries (including the three mention above all run by Verisign) should be required to use a thick Whois model. The recommendation was that they should. Nearly two years into the implementation, we have a schedule for one of the ancillary recommendation (August 2016, 5 years after this process started), a date dependant on IETF action for a 2nd phase, and no plan or date for the prime recommendation of a universal Thick Whois. I have posted a draft ALAC comment at https://community.icann.org/x/FIdlAw. I ask staff to formally open a comment period on this draft immediately, and to close on 22 January to allow the statement to be revised and a vote taken by the ALAC.