Apologies to Steve for getting my mailing lists mixed up again. I have been confusing the Whois Steering Committee list and the Council list, for some odd reason. I would guess from Steve's message below that he is unfamiliar with the 19 February 2003 Final Report of the GNSO Council's Whois Task Force, which adopted new poliies re: Accuracy. http://www.icann.org/gnso/whois-tf/report-19feb03.htm One could hardly say that GNSO has deferred "any consideration" of accuracy issues. It has already adopted new policies to strengthen accuracy. What it did defer was the privacy and data collection issues.

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Steve Metalitz <metalitz@iipa.com> 10/21/03 01:26PM >>> I did not see Milton's message until Thomas replied to it (indeed Milton's message does not appear on the Whois S/G list archives either) but I must register an objection to the proposal to further delay ANY consideration of the accuracy issue (one of the consensus top 5) until after completion of work on a number of complex issues that were not considered a priority by more than one or at most two constituencies.