[To: liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org; council[at]gnso.icann.org] [To: ga[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org] [To: gnso-dow123[at]gnso.icann.org] The WHOIS Preliminary task force report on the purpose of Whois and of the Whois contacts http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/prelim-tf-rpt-18jan06.htm is published at: http://www.icann.org/ http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-18jan06.htm http://www.gnso.icann.org/ http://gnso.icann.org/comments-request/ Public comments are invited from 19 January to 08 February 2006. Please submit comments to: <whois-comments@icann.org> <http://forum.icann.org/lists/whois-comments/> The archives of the comments are available at: <http://forum.icann.org/lists/whois-comments/> Thank you in advance for your time spent considering this issue and commenting. Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org