On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 11:24:39PM +0000, Susan Kawaguchi wrote:
1) Create Single WHOIS policy 2) Change to a Registry Thick WHOIS
I do oppose any thick whois apporach as RT-recommendation. Fulfilling national data protection laws is impossible with any centralized (extra territorial) data store.
From the perspective of lawful implementation of Whois services, only a thin whois structure is possible. I strongly suggest to extend the thin whois delegations into the reseller chain. This requires approbriate contracts between registries and registrars as well as registrars and resellers.
3) Registrant pays for validation of WHOIS data 4) Create contractual agreements between ICANN and each Proxy/Privacy Registration service provider and impose standardized best practices
I do oppose any proxy/privacy services while maintaining the whois requirement. Either the data is required or proxy services are allowed. Both approaches conflict in practice. If proxy/privacy services are allowed, whois services should not collect and publish personal data (of at least owner and admin) anymore.