Dear Kathy, ICANN's records have been reviewed and Staff has found no additional Article 29 correspondence beyond the ones that you and Bill have already shared with the Team. "Data protection commissioner" is not a title all governments confer so Staff has included correspondence on Whois from other government officials that the Team may find useful. Please let me know if the Team needs anything further on this. Regards, Denise Letter from Hansjürgen Garstka to Stuart Lynn<http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/garstka-to-lynn-15jan03.htm>International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications15 January 2003Whois policy Letter From Jonathan Leibowitz to Paul Twomey<http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/leibowitz-to-twomey-09feb05.pdf> [PDF, 858 KB]Federal Trade Commission9 February 2005Whois Database Letter from John Fingleton to Vint Cerf<http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/fingleton-to-cerf-20jun06.pdf> [PDF, 51 KB]Office of Fair Trading20 June 2006Proposed change to narrow purpose definition of publicly available Whois databases Letter from Michel Parisse to ICANN <http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/parisse-to-icann-22jun06.pdf>[PDF, 55 KB]Commission de la Protection de la Privee22 June 2006WHOIS Is Privacy Issues Letter from Jennifer Stoddart to Vinton Cerf<http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/stoddart-to-cerf-12jul06.pdf> [PDF, 72 KB]Privacy Commissioner of Canada12 July 2006Whois Issues Regards, Denise Denise Michel ICANN Advisor to the President & CEO denise.michel@icann.org +1.408.429.3072 mobile +1.310.578.8632 direct On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Kathy Kleiman <kathy@kathykleiman.com>wrote:
Dear Liz and Denise, On behalf of the Whois Review Team, I would like to request the past filings, submissions, letters and comments of data protection commissioners speaking/writing to ICANN on Whois issues.
We are looking for any material submitted over the duration of this discussion with ICANN. This could be material of individual data protection commissioners who may have written, as well as DP associations, e.g., The Article 29 Working Party (and/or its chair) writing to ICANN. (As you know the Article 29 Working Party is a group established under the EU Privacy Directive and comprised of all national data protection commissioners of the EU).
There may be other associations of data protection commissioners that have written to us as well, e.g., the International *Data Protection* and Privacy *Commissioners* Conference.
I do not think there are many filings, but I do recall they span a long period of time, and probably date back to the original Whois Task Forces. (4-5 pieces, maybe)
Timeframe: As soon as possible, and by our Marina del Ray meeting next week, if possible.
Thank you,
Kathy Kleiman Vice-Chair, Whois Review Team
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