Dear review team colleagues, The GAC has asked me to forward the following comments to the WHOIS review team: * The GAC is interested in the work of the WHOIS review team and looks forward to further engagement and consultation as the review progresses. * The GAC would like to draw the review team's attention to the 2007 GAC Principles regarding gTLD WHOIS services, which identify public policy issues and propose principles related to generic Top Level Domain WHOIS services. The GAC would welcome discussions with the review team, and with the broader community, on these principles. * Consistent with these principles, the GAC highlights the broad range of national legislation and bodies of law potentially relevant to the WHOIS service, including: privacy and data protection laws; consumer protection law; intellectual property law; various forms of criminal law; and so on. For these reasons, the GAC would recommend that the review team's definition of 'applicable laws' be drafted a way that can account for all relevant laws. * The GAC looks forward to further discussions with the review team at the upcoming ICANN meeting in Singapore. Please let me know if there are any questions arising from this, or if there is anything you would like me to follow up further with the GAC. Cheers, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------