Kristina, fellow councillors; After consultation with the registrar community, I would like to offer the following language as an amendment to motion #2 on Whois. The purpose of these amendments is two-fold; a) to conclude the policy development work of the GNSO on the issue of Whois until such time that we have identified specific issues that we can break down into discrete policy development activities. I do not believe that we attempt again a broad reform of Whois but rather, focus on smaller, narrower sets of issues in the field that we can deal with in short periods of time while still achieving meaningful results, and; b) to focus the study work required to line up against specific policy areas where we need further information in order to understand the scope of issues or work required. A broad study of Whois will probably be as effective and useful as a broad PDP on Whois. However, narrower more focused study - or several of them even - will likely bring us much closer to understanding the issues we need to properly consider our policy work. If anyone has any questions regarding these amendments, please let me know. Thank you in advance for your consideration of this amendment. --- WHEREAS; 1. The GNSO Council has recently received the Whois Working Group final report and; 2. The GNSO Council acknowledges that the broad range of stakeholders with interests in this issue has lead to a wide range of views of what the policy issues are and how to best address those policy issues with solutions that can be supported by the consensus of the community, and; 3. The GNSO Council observes that the Working Group failed to reach agreement on several of the key issues identified in the charter of the Working Group, and; 4. That broadly, the scope of the issues in this area have evolved substantially over the term of this Policy Development Process since it was originally chartered, and; 5. A comprehensive, objective and quantifiable understanding of key factual issues regarding the gTLD Whois system will benefit future GNSO policy development efforts, and; 6. The rights and requirements of natural persons, anti-crime and law enforcement, registries and registrars in the areas of privacy, access, enforcement, investigation, consumer protection and research would benefit from future policy development by the GNSO. THEREFORE, Be it resolved that the GNSO Council; 1. Sincerely thanks all of the volunteers, advisors, consultants, staff, stakeholders, observers and constituency participants who have contributed to the GNSO's examination of Whois policy over the last four years, and; 2. Formally ends the Policy Development Process on gTLD Whois without making any recommendations for specific policy changes to ICANN’s Board of Directors, and; 3. Recognizes the demand for future policy development in several key areas and will immediately undertake to identify what specific policy development work is required and create a data-gathering and study plan to support this policy development no later than February 15th, 2008. 4. May initiate policy development activities in this area, as supported by the findings of the data-gathering and study activities upon their completion. --- Thank you in advance for considering these amendments. Ross Rader Director, Retail Services t. 416.538.5492 c. 416.828.8783 http://www.domaindirect.com "To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow." - Erik Nupponen