-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 All, After discussion of the current Whois proposal (Notice and Disclosure) I would like to present an amendment to the current recommendations for discussion during tomorrow's Council call. The Registrar Constituency representatives are fully prepared to support an amended version of the proposal that allows registrars flexibility in how they disclose the WHOIS requirements, based on common practice across Internet ecommerce transactions, the expectations of their customers, and the national laws within which different registrars operate. In order to accomplish this, changes to the current recommendations are required. These changes are: - - removal of second sentence from the first recommendation that prevents a link to an external web page - - removal of the third recommendation that requires separate acknowledgement The amended recommendations would read as follows: 1. Registrars must ensure that disclosures regarding availability and third-party access to personal data associated with domain names actually be presented to registrants during the registration process. 2. Registrars must ensure that these disclosures are set aside from other provisions of the registration agreement if they are presented to registrants together with that agreement. Alternatively, registrars may present data access disclosures separate from the registration agreement. The wording of the notice provided by registrars should, to the extent feasible, be uniform. - -- Regards, -rwr "Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from very simple beginnings." - Robert Collier Got Blog? http://www.blogware.com My Blogware: http://www.byte.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3-nr1 (Windows XP) iD8DBQFCuXU46sL06XjirooRAhtpAJ4tHABxXwjVYhBiNl8gmQvqghKHNwCfZSPI 5+iDEFDLL814IY6f23xYPFM= =6v+c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----