FW: Letter from the Registries Stakeholder Group
Wearing my RySG Councilor hat, here is a letter that the RySG sent to the Board regarding concerns we have about the Board's action to form its own Data Consumer Protection Working Group as well as its apparent support for unilaterally changing Whois requirements in a top-down manner. Chuck From: David W. Maher [mailto:dmaher@pir.org] Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 2:02 PM To: peter.dengatethrush@icann.org Cc: rod.beckstrom@icann.org; Gomes, Chuck; diane.schroeder@icann.org Subject: Letter from the Registries Stakeholder Group Dear Peter: Attached to this message is a letter from the Registries Stakeholder Group of the ICANN GNSO regarding resolution 2.10 passed by the ICANN Board on September 25, 2010 with respect to the Board's action items on "Searchable Whois". We would appreciate it if this letter could be made available to the entire Board. Best regards David David W. Maher Chair, Registries Stakeholder Group Senior Vice President - Law & Policy .ORG, The Public Interest Registry 1775 Wiehle Ave, #200 Reston, VA 20190 USA (v) +1-312-876-8055 (f) +1-312-876-7934 http://www.pir.org <http://www.pir.org/> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be protected by legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail or any attachment is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by returning it to the sender and deleting this copy from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.
Hello Chuck, Just a quite response that the creation of the Data and Consumer Protection Working Group is separate from the issues of WHOIS. The Data and Consumer Protection Working group has only met informally over breakfast so far, and from my perspective the purpose is to identify a set of issues relating to registry data for further consideration by the community - rather than to "create" any policies. WHOIS wasn't discussed. With respect to the text: "Searchable Whois: Refer to the Board Data Consumer Protection Working Group to study issues and provide information to the Board relating to access and privacy to develop recommendations for possible inclusion in the forthcoming version of the applicant guidebook." The wording could be better. The Board is asking the newly formed group to study the issues, but I am not yet clear what recommendations could emerge. Your letter is timely in this regard. I agreed to be a member of the working group - partly to ensure that it doesn't stray too far from identifying issues for further work (e.g creating an issues report with appropriate facts for discussion in the community), rather than creating policy on the fly at the Board level Regards, Bruce Tonkin
Bruce, Regardless of whether it is separate from Whois or not, it still looks like the Board is directly involved in policy development work. It would be helpful to understand if you believe that is not the case and why. Chuck
-----Original Message----- From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner- council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 1:31 AM To: Council GNSO Subject: RE: [council] FW: Letter from the Registries Stakeholder Group
Just a quite response that the creation of the Data and Consumer Protection Working Group is separate from the issues of WHOIS.
Sorry, that should read: "Just a quick response .."
Regards, Bruce
Very glad you will be on the group Bruce. Thanks for volunteering. Chuck
-----Original Message----- From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner- council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 12:32 AM To: Council GNSO Subject: RE: [council] FW: Letter from the Registries Stakeholder Group
Hello Chuck,
Just a quite response that the creation of the Data and Consumer Protection Working Group is separate from the issues of WHOIS.
The Data and Consumer Protection Working group has only met informally over breakfast so far, and from my perspective the purpose is to identify a set of issues relating to registry data for further consideration by the community - rather than to "create" any policies. WHOIS wasn't discussed.
With respect to the text: "Searchable Whois: Refer to the Board Data Consumer Protection Working Group to study issues and provide information to the Board relating to access and privacy to develop recommendations for possible inclusion in the forthcoming version of the applicant guidebook." The wording could be better. The Board is asking the newly formed group to study the issues, but I am not yet clear what recommendations could emerge. Your letter is timely in this regard.
I agreed to be a member of the working group - partly to ensure that it doesn't stray too far from identifying issues for further work (e.g creating an issues report with appropriate facts for discussion in the community), rather than creating policy on the fly at the Board level
Regards, Bruce Tonkin
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