Team:

As discussed during our call, here is the proposed bifurcated definition of "consumer" for inclusion in our call for comments. It has been chopped up a bit for readability, but I did endeavor to preserve the overall meaning.

I've also modified the "Feedback Requested" to be more open ended.

Thoughts / feeedback?  I'm off to bed now, but will check back in a few hours.

Thanks--

J.
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In the global sense, "consumer" means:
 * All Internet users including natural persons, commercial and non-commercial entities, government and academic entities,

And specifically within the context of this review, a "WHOIS consumer" means:
* Any consumer that acts as a  Producer of WHOIS data  (see above), Maintainers (e.g. Registrars), and / or User (e.g.    individuals, commercial or non-commercial entities who legitimately query the WHOIS data.).

Feedback request from community
 
Community feedback is desired on the Review Team's approach to this definition.  Is it too broad or too restrictive?