February 2011 - Rt4-whois - lists.icann.org

Fwd: [ccnso-members] Technical evolution of the WHOIS
by Emily Taylor Feb. 17, 2011

Feb. 17, 2011

Dear all Chris Disspain, Chair of the ccNSO, has forwarded this message from the Chief Executive of the New Zealand registry, which discusses the evolution of the technical WHOIS protocol, and provides a summary and links which may be of interest to our Team's work. Kind regards Emily Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Jay Daley <jay(a)nzrs.net.nz> >> Date: 18 February 2011 10:24:40 AEDT >> To: ccNSO Members <ccnso-members(a)icann.org>, "ccTLDcommunity(a)cctld-managers.org" <cctldcommunity(a)cctld-managers.org> >> Subject: [ccnso-members] Technical evolution of the WHOIS >> >> >> G'day >> >> At the Catagena ICANN meeting there was a workshop entitled "Technical evolution of the WHOIS" that I accidentally found myself attending. It began with some presentations from IANA staff and an ICANN director on what was wrong with the WHOIS and how that could be solved by moving to a new service, which would be fundamentally different from WHOIS. >> >> A number of issues were raised with this initiative, beginning with the fact that WHOIS is very popular, serves a useful purpose, has a great deal invested in it by registries, registrars and third parties and no case has been made that it should be replaced. Similarly no case has been made for the proposed new features they wanted to add to a replacement for WHOIS and the last time this was tried, with IRIS, there was little interest. >> >> There were also expressions of concern at the process for something as major as recommending the replacement of WHOIS with another protocol, which should not be a workshop with a few technical presentations and little publicity as the impact is far wider than this. It really is not a technical issue and calling this initiative the 'Technical evolution of WHOIS" seems to be way of introducing a major change by the backdoor. >> >> The resulting discussion was inconclusive and afterwards ICANN published some reports and set up a wiki with all the relevant documents: >> >> https://community.icann.org/display/TEwhoisService/ >> >> and a low traffic mailing list (tech-whois(a)icann.org) to facilitate ongoing discussion: >> >> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/tech-whois >> >> We in .nz have written a detailed submission to ICANN in response to this initiative, which raises our issues with both the substance of the ICANN reports and the process: >> >> http://internetnz.net.nz/system/files/submissions/internetnz_submission_on_… >> >> Another workshop is being planned for San Francisco with agenda still under discussion on the mailing list. The current proposal is that a cross-constituency working group consider a new service to provide the functionality that WHOIS does not have and see what support that has before any discussions on replacing WHOIS. If you are interested in this then please join the mailing list or come along to the next workshop. >> >> cheers >> Jay >> >> -- >> Jay Daley >> Chief Executive >> .nz Registry Services (New Zealand Domain Name Registry Limited) >> desk: +64 4 931 6977 >> mobile: +64 21 678840 >> >> 76 Temple Road, Oxford OX4 2EZ UK telephone: 01865 582 811 mobile: 07540 049 322 emily.taylor(a)etlaw.co.uk www.etlaw.co.uk

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Re: [Rt4-whois] Fwd: Fwd: Team questions for ICANN staff
by James M. Bladel Feb. 16, 2011

Feb. 16, 2011

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Law Enforcement & Applicable Laws
by Smith, Bill Feb. 16, 2011

Feb. 16, 2011

First, I believe the definitions as presented reasonably capture the sentiment of most, if not all, members of the Review Team (including me). My concern is not with the definitions per se, but rather how they might be used in other contexts. For example, are the "legitimate needs of law enforcement" constrained by Applicable Laws? Are ICANN's compliance efforts similarly constrained?

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Re: [Rt4-whois] pictures
by James M. Bladel Feb. 16, 2011

Feb. 16, 2011

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Preliminary Report - for your consideration
by Alice Jansen Feb. 16, 2011

Feb. 16, 2011

Dear Review Team Members, Please find attached the meeting notes from your last call. This is for your consideration – please review and circulate your editing requirements to the Team. Thanks, Best regards Alice

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pictures
by Alice Jansen Feb. 16, 2011

Feb. 16, 2011

Dear Review Team Members, Please find attached Stacy's pictures of the dinner party in London. Thanks, Stacy! Best regards Alice From: Stacy Burnette <stacy.burnette(a)icann.org<mailto:stacy.burnette@icann.org>> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:27:49 -0800 To: Alice Jansen <alice.jansen(a)icann.org<mailto:alice.jansen@icann.org>> Cc: Liz Gasster <liz.gasster(a)icann.org<mailto:liz.gasster@icann.org>>, Denise Michel <denise.michel(a)icann.org<mailto:denise.michel@icann.org>> Subject: Please share the attached pictures with the Whois Review Team Best, Stacy Burnette

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Re: [Rt4-whois] SF draft agenda for team comment
by James M. Bladel Feb. 15, 2011

Feb. 15, 2011

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Definitions
by James M. Bladel Feb. 15, 2011

Feb. 15, 2011

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Existing WHOIS Policy
by James M. Bladel Feb. 15, 2011

Feb. 15, 2011

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Fwd: [ALAC-Announce] REMINDER / IRD-WG outreach invitation
by Omar Kaminski Feb. 15, 2011

Feb. 15, 2011

Dear RT members, I ask permission to forward this email from ALAC, observing that "internationalization of registration data" could, or even should, impact on "applicable laws". Best from .br, Omar ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ICANN At-Large Staff <staff(a)atlarge.icann.org> Date: 2011/2/15 Subject: [ALAC-Announce] REMINDER / IRD-WG outreach invitation To: "alac-announce(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org" <alac-announce(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Dear All, Please see below information on two webinars scheduled for TOMORROW, 16 February that will discuss the interim report of the Internationalized Registration Data Working Group (IRD-WG). ** Dear ICANN community, On 26 June 2009 the ICANN Board approved a resolution (2009.06.26.18: <http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-26jun09.htm#6>) requesting that the GNSO and the SSAC, in consultation with staff, convene an Internationalized Registration Data Working Group (IRD-WG) comprised of individuals with knowledge, expertise, and experience in these areas to study the feasibility and suitability of introducing display specifications to deal with the internationalization of registration data. The working group has produced an interim report that discusses several potential models for internationalizing domain registration data, and is seeking feedback from the community about the models and on other key questions via a Public Forum that is open until 14 March 2011. See the link at http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#ird. The working group will provide an online briefing (webinar) on February 16 2011 at 14.00 and 20.00 UTC. We welcome the community's participation. The two sessions are duplicates, scheduled to accommodate different time zones. Each session, scheduled to run for 60 minutes, will be conducted in English only. The meeting will be run in Adobe Connect with a slide presentation along with a dial-in conference bridge for audio. Participants will have opportunity to ask questions at the end of each session. During the course of the webinar, questions may be submitted using the chat function of Adobe Connect. If you are not able to participate in either of the live sessions, the slides and MP3 will be made available shortly after the meeting. The policy staff is always available to answer any questions that you email to policy-staff(a)icann.org<mailto:policy-staff@icann.org> <mailto:policy-staff@icann.org> . In order to participate, please RSVP via email to the GNSO Secretariat (gnso.secretariat(a)gnso.icann.org<mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org> <mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org>) to receive the call details. Please indicate which call you would like to join, 14.00 UTC or 20.00 UTC (to convert those times into your local time, see: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html> ). We will send you an e-mail reminder before the event with log-in and dial-in details. Please DO NOT RSVP to any other ICANN staff members e-mail address. Warm regards, ICANN Policy Development Support ** Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Seth Greene, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, ICANN At-Large Staff _______________________________________________ ALAC-Announce mailing list ALAC-Announce(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto:ALAC-Announce@atlarge-lists.icann.org> https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac-announce At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org _______________________________________________ ALAC-Announce mailing list ALAC-Announce(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac-announce At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org

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