[council] Revised WHOIS National Laws Procedure posted

GNSO Councilors: ICANN has posted a notice of implementation of the revised ICANN Procedure for Handling WHOIS Conflicts with Privacy Law (http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-18dec07.htm). The procedure will be posted for 30 days and is planned for implementation in January 2008. The revised procedure incorporates the advice from the GAC received during the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles, http://gac.icann.org/web/communiques/gac29com.pdf). A copy of the revised procedure is attached, courtesy of Patrick Jones, showing the modifications from the previous draft procedure highlighted in yellow. The changed sections are in 1.4, 2.1, 3.1 and 5.1. Liz Gasster Senior Policy Counselor ICANN