I was actually thinking of something simpler. For example: Hypotheses 1. There are a significant number of misuse cases involve receipt of unwanted email (spam). 2. Modifications to WHOIS would be useful in deterring spam and other such illegal or undesirable activities. 3. Most use of WHOIS to facilitate illegal or undesirable activities is traceable to data mining over port 43. 4. There are abuses of public display of Whois. 5. Registrants are validly consenting in a verifiable and enforceable manner to the submission of their personal information in WHOIS records and their consent could be valid if modifications were made to registrars' processes. 6. ccTLD WHOIS policies reflect national data protection laws and priorities. 7. National data protection laws are in conflict with the requirement to publicly display Whois data. 8. Registrars comply with RAA Whois requirements. 9. etc. Chuck ________________________________ From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Liz Gasster Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 6:45 AM To: council@gnso.icann.org Subject: [council] summary of possible WHOIS studies w/ hypotheses only All, as discussed in today's meeting, attached please find an abbreviated summary of WHOIS study suggestions which includes each hypothesis (excluding the GAC suggestions) but excludes the staff commentary provided in the earlier version. Unfortunately the summary is still 6 pages long - but easier to navigate than the original 12-page document. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Liz