With regard to the below email from the GNSO
Does the AtLarge community have any input to provide on this
application?
Thanks
Jacqueline
Dear
Council members,
Please
be advised that ICANN has received an application for evaluation of new
registry services regarding Whois from Telnic, the operator of the .tel
registry which is expected to launch later in 2007.
On
27 April, 2007, ICANN Services staff received an application from Telnic who
requested an alteration to its contract in order to comply with the UK Data
Protection Act (1998), an implementation of the EU Data Protection Directive
(95/46/EC). Telnic has not provided notification of an investigation, litigation,
regulatory proceeding or other compliance action that might affect its
compliance with its agreement with ICANN regarding the collection, display or
distribution of personally identifiable data via Whois. It has carried out
informal consultations with stakeholders and the UK Information Commissioner.
This
evaluation process is completely separate from the Draft ICANN Procedure
for Handling Whois Conflicts with Privacy Law (http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/whois_national_laws_procedure.htm)
The draft Procedure was developed by the GNSO Council in November 2005 and
adopted by the ICANN Board in May 2006. The ICANN staff developed an
implementation draft of the procedure and invited public comments (December
2006 – January 2007) on it. The procedure will be finalised pending any
input from the Government Advisory Committee.
The
Telnic request is at step 2.4, ‘Preliminary Determination’, of the
Registry Services Request process. (Process diagram here: http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/workflow.html,
process policy here; http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/rsep.html)
The process has not identified significant security or stability issues or
competition issues that might bar the implementation of the new registry
service.
The
next step is that the service request will be posted for public comments and
sent to the ICANN Board for a decision on implementation.
Registry
Services Evaluation Process: http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/
Telnic
Cover letter: http://www.icann.org/correspondence/price-to-pritz-25apr07.pdf
Telnic
Registry Request Service: http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/telnic-whois-proposal-27apr07.pdf
Best
regards, Maria Farrell