May 2008 - At-Large - lists.icann.org

New CIRA Whois Policy Strikes Balance Between Privacy and Access
by Danny Younger May 3, 2008

May 3, 2008

http://www.circleid.com/posts/85210_cira_whois_policy_privacy_access/ P.S. ... While Canada's CIRA respects WHOIS privacy concerns, ICANN's GNSO and GAC play the "we need more studies" game in order to stall responsible policy development. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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Re: [At-Large] New CIRA Whois Policy Strikes Balance Between Privacy and Access
by Jeffrey A. Williams May 2, 2008

May 2, 2008

Danny and all, I don't read or interprate the link below in quite the same way you do Danny, but also I think given some other of CIRA's statements they pander regarding privacy yet allow third party access to PII in Whois. Ergo, I see, as doe our members especially those in Canada, that CIRA is playing both ends against the middle. This is of course an old and well known political stratagy that usually ends up creating more disharmony, significant lack of accountability, and serious damage to stakeholders, whomever they may be or in which juandra is involved. ICANN, GNSO, and the GAC's desire for more studies is seemingly seeks to break the privacy issues instead of stalling, by continuing to have more Working groups, studies, ect., ect. This also is yet another old and failed political stratagy that also largely and usually serves no harmonious of productive ends due to the lack of creditable means. The only primary ligitimate concern is once or accuracy in Whois data, not one of whom has access to PII in whois. Yet the accuracy problem is being used as a wedge issue to rehash the latter privacy issue. Very childish in my and many of our members opinion. -----Original Message----- >From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger(a)yahoo.com> >Sent: May 2, 2008 1:09 PM >To: At-Large Worldwide <alac(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> >Subject: [At-Large] New CIRA Whois Policy Strikes Balance Between Privacy and Access > >http://www.circleid.com/posts/85210_cira_whois_policy_privacy_access/ > >P.S. > >... While Canada's CIRA respects WHOIS privacy >concerns, ICANN's GNSO and GAC play the "we need more >studies" game in order to stall responsible policy development. > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ >Be a better friend, newshound, and >know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > >_______________________________________________ >ALAC mailing list >ALAC(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org >http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org > >At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1(a)ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827

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Weekly posting summary for alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by Thomas Narten May 2, 2008

May 2, 2008

Total of 39 messages in the last 7 days. script run at: Fri May 2 00:53:01 EDT 2008 Messages | Bytes | Who --------+------+--------+----------+------------------------ 20.51% | 8 | 26.35% | 93626 | jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com 10.26% | 4 | 8.22% | 29223 | evan at telly.org 7.69% | 3 | 7.58% | 26943 | nick.ashton-hart at icann.org 7.69% | 3 | 6.41% | 22793 | jefsey at jefsey.com 5.13% | 2 | 5.99% | 21289 | dominik.filipp at dsoft.sk 5.13% | 2 | 5.79% | 20580 | dannyyounger at yahoo.com 5.13% | 2 | 5.22% | 18548 | roberto at icann.org 5.13% | 2 | 5.12% | 18196 | fsylla at gmail.com 5.13% | 2 | 4.38% | 15555 | alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca 5.13% | 2 | 3.84% | 13649 | ross at tucows.com 5.13% | 2 | 3.63% | 12895 | michele at blacknight.ie 2.56% | 1 | 3.69% | 13122 | cheryl at hovtek.com.au 2.56% | 1 | 3.21% | 11408 | vanda at uol.com.br 2.56% | 1 | 2.58% | 9154 | brenbe at consumer.org 2.56% | 1 | 2.20% | 7802 | lists at privaterra.info 2.56% | 1 | 2.14% | 7620 | narten at us.ibm.com 2.56% | 1 | 1.83% | 6509 | johnl at iecc.com 2.56% | 1 | 1.80% | 6400 | staff at atlarge.icann.org --------+------+--------+----------+------------------------ 100.00% | 39 |100.00% | 355312 | Total

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Domain Tasting Motion open for Public Comment 30 April to 21 May 2008
by Alan Greenberg May 2, 2008

May 2, 2008

The Public comment period on the Domain Tasting Motion is open for public comments from 30 April 2008 to 21 May 2008. The GNSO Council approved by super majority vote a motion to discourage use of the current "add grace period" (AGP), where domains can be returned within five days without cost, for "domain tasting" purposes. The motion, which is pending for Board action, would prohibit any gTLD operator that has implemented an "add grace period" (AGP) from offering a refund for any domain name deleted during the AGP that exceeds 10% of its net new registrations during that month, or fifty domain names, whichever is greater. An exemption could be granted based on extraordinary circumstances, as detailed in the motion. "Domain Tasting" refers to a situation where an entity registers a domain name and then tests to see if the name has sufficient traffic to provide more income than the annual registration fee (usually through pay-per-click advertising). If the name is profitable, it is kept. If not, the AGP is used to return the domain at no cost to the registrant. Recently, there has been a significant increase in the number of domain names registered and returned within the AGP. In October 2007, the GNSO Council launched a policy development process (PDP) on domain tasting and produced an Initial Report http://www.gnso.icann.org/issues/domain-tasting/gnso-initial-report-domain-… for public comment that outlined the possible actions to be taken, and the arguments for and against such actions. Public comments were incorporated into a draft Final Report http://www.gnso.icann.org/drafts/draft-final-report-domain-tasting-08feb08.… (posted 8 February) for GNSO Council review and action. The public is invited to comment on this motion before final consideration by the Board. Please submit comments to: <dt-motion-21may08(a)icann.org> Comments may be viewed at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/dt-motion-21may08/

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