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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:25:41 +0200
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Subject: [ga] Reminder: Comments invited on reports and recommendations
 summarized
 in the Staff Overview of Recent GNSO WHOIS Activity.
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Please note that the following two documents have been posted on page:
http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/

Staff Overview of recent WHOIS activities
http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/icann-staff-overview-of-whois11oct07.pdf

Staff Implementation notes WHOIS working group report
http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/gnso-whoiswg-report-staff-implementation-not=
es-11oct07.pdf

Public comments are open on the WHOIS process until 30 October 2007.
http://www.icann.org/public_comment/

Please submit comments to: <whois-comments-2007@icann.org>
Comments may be viewed at:
http://forum.icann.org/lists/whois-comments-2007/

Explanation:  A Whois taskforce convened in June 2005 completed its work=20
and sent a final report to the GNSO Council in March 2007. In that=20
report, a majority of members endorsed a proposal called the=20
"Operational Point of Contact" (OPOC) where a domain name registrant=20
would be able to choose a third-party to appear in the public Whois=20
information for this domain and the registrant=92s contact details would=20
no longer be displayed.

Expanding on that work, the GNSO Council in March created a Whois=20
working group to examine three issues and make recommendations on them:

1. To examine the roles, responsibilities and requirements of the OPOC,=20
and what happens if they are not fulfilled;
2. To examine how legitimate interests will access unpublished=20
registration data; and
3. To examine whether publication of registration contact information=20
should be based on the type of registered name holder (legal vs. natural=20
persons) or the registrant's use of a domain name.

The working group's report [pdf] was published on 20 August 2007. On 6=20
September 2007, the GNSO Council approved a resolution for further=20
public comment on the report with the intention to lead to a vote on the=20
issue on 31 October 2007 during the Los Angeles ICANN meeting. The=20
resolution called for ICANN staff to prepare a "draft final report"=20
covering the Whois reports referenced above and called Staff Overview of=20
Recent GNSO WHOIS Activity [pdf]. Public comments are invited on both of=20
the GNSO Council's Whois reports and recommendations referenced above=20
and summarized in the Staff Overview of Recent GNSO WHOIS Activity.

Comments will be taken until 00:00 UTC (17:00 PDT) on 30 October 2007.

Please take time to submit comments.
Thank you.

Kind regards,

  Glen de Saint G=E9ry

GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org