Hello all, I can see that the team has been very busy these past couple of weeks, and that some very useful discussions have emerged. I apologise for my absence, but I'm now busy trying to get back up to speed with where everything is at. Consumer trust has obviously been an area of fruitful discussion, and I think I have been able to largely track that debate through and have the latest working definitions and proposed questions. However, I'm having more trouble with the law enforcement and applicable laws discussions. For example, are the definitions of these on the public wiki page taken to be our final working definitions? Also, have proposed questions for these areas been developed? I apologise if I've missed them, but the number of emails, transcripts and wiki entries has made this a bit hard to track this - perhaps as I'm not on those sub-teams. Could someone, perhaps from one of those sub-teams, please forward these through to me if they're in a form to do so? As I said in London, and I see that others have commented on this more recently, I think a key issue here will be to ensure that we don't let something slip through the net (so to speak) of these three broad constructs. So from my perspective, I'd like to be able to look at all three together if possible. The one thing I would flag in advance is some reservation about the law enforcement definition on the wiki page. I haven't yet had time to work through this fully, but I hope that there could be opportunity to discuss this if necessary. I apologise in advance if I've missed something obvious. Thanks in advance, Peter From: rt4-whois-bounces@icann.org<mailto:rt4-whois-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:rt4-whois-bounces@icann.org]<mailto:[mailto:rt4-whois-bounces@icann.org]> On Behalf Of Emily Taylor Sent: Saturday, 19 February 2011 9:45 PM To: rt4-whois@icann.org<mailto:rt4-whois@icann.org> WHOIS Subject: [Rt4-whois] Next week -availability and public comment materials Dear all Just to let you know, I will be off line from Monday afternoon UTC for the rest of the week on holiday and business, and will not have access to e-mails. I wanted to contribute to the cause of getting our materials out to public comment next week. As I see it, our situation is: Scope and roadmap - agreed Action plan and outreach plan - agreed Definitions and questions: Law enforcement - agreed Producers and maintainers - agreed (I think) Applicable laws - nearly there. We are waiting on additional questions to highlight concerns raised on the call by Bill. Bill is going to put his thoughts to the sub-Team, who will do the drafting. Consumers and consumer trust - This needs the most work, in my view. We have a definition of "consumer" which can go out. Again, Kathy raised some concerns on the call - and we agreed that Kathy will put her concerns in writing, and the sub-team will formulate some questions for public comment on that basis. We also need to think about how to capture the ideas on consumer trust. I have a suggestion, which I'd be glad to work on this weekend. That is, we develop a qualitative-type question set based on section two of the paper. The aim would be to capture views on what is important in promoting consumer trust. The other area that we have not addressed is the introduction to the public comment. Kathy and I would be glad to pull something together on this. I will let Kathy have a first draft this weekend. Let me know if I missed anything. Best, Emily [cid:image002.jpg@01CBD4EE.BDCDD7C0] 76 Temple Road, Oxford OX4 2EZ UK telephone: 01865 582 811 mobile: 07540 049 322 emily.taylor@etlaw.co.uk<mailto:emily.taylor@etlaw.co.uk> www.etlaw.co.uk<http://www.etlaw.co.uk> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is for the use of the intended recipient only and may contain confidential and/or legally privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, disclosure, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited and may result in severe penalties. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the Security Advisor of the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, 38 Sydney Ave, Forrest ACT 2603, telephone (02) 6271-1376 and delete all copies of this transmission together with any attachments. Please consider the environment before printing this email. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
