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 International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications 15 January 2003 Whois policy



Letter From Jonathan Leibowitz to Paul Twomey [PDF, 858 KB] Federal Trade Commission 9 February 2005 Whois Database

Letter from John Fingleton to Vint Cerf [PDF, 51 KB] Office of Fair Trading 20 June 2006 Proposed change to narrow purpose definition of publicly available Whois databases

Letter from Michel Parisse to ICANN [PDF, 55 KB] Commission de la Protection de la Privee 22 June 2006 WHOIS Is Privacy Issues

Letter from Jennifer Stoddart to Vinton Cerf [PDF, 72 KB] Privacy Commissioner of Canada 12 July 2006 Whois Issues


Regards,
Denise

Denise Michel
ICANN
Advisor to the President & CEO
denise.michel@icann.org
+1.408.429.3072 mobile
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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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