Hi All, I feel like I am sending altogether too many emails today. Sorry :-)! Anyway, here's one more. I worked with James, a little, and Susan, more, on streamlining the Proxy recommendations to look, sound and flow like the Privacy recommendations. Of course, proxy is voluntary, and privacy is a requirement, but the rest is fairly close. They are below and attached. If you like them, we'll send them on to Alice for inclusion. Note: the definitions went into a footnote which should be easy to see as it will be quite extensive. here's the text: *Data Access- Proxy Service * 1. ICANN should facilitate the review of existing practices by reaching out to proxy providers to create a discussion which sets out current processes followed by proxy service providers. 2. Registrars should be required to disclosure their relationship with any Affiliated Retail proxy service provider to ICANN. 3. ICANN should develop and manage a set of voluntary best practice guidelines for appropriate proxy services [footnote 1] consistent with national laws. These voluntary guidelines should strike an appropriate balance between stakeholders with competing but legitimate interests. At a minimum this would include privacy, law enforcement and the industry around law enforcement. Such voluntary guidelines may include: + Proxy services provide full contact details as required by the Whois + Publication by the proxy service of its process for revealing and relaying information + Standardization of reveal and relay processes and timeframes, consistent with national laws + Maintenance of a dedicated abuse point of contact for the proxy service provider + Due diligence checks on licensee contact information. 5. ICANN should encourage and incentivize registrars to interact with the retail service providers that adopt the best practices. 6. For the avoidance of doubt, the WHOIS Policy, referred to in Recommendation 1 above, should include an affirmative statement that clarifies that a proxy means a relationship in which the Registrant is acting on behalf of another. The WHOIS data is that of the agent, and the agent alone obtains all rights and assumes all responsibility for the domain name and its manner of use. Footnote 1 (all the remaining text) As guidance to the Community and as useful background for the Proxy Service Recommendations, the Review Team provides its working definitions of proxy service and different types of proxy service providers: - _*Proxy Service*_**-- a relationship in which the registrant is acting on behalf of another The WHOIS data is that of the agent and the agent alone obtains all rights and assumes all responsibility for the domain name and its manner of use. /[KK: is this the definition we are //using//in other places in the Report?]/ /- /_*Affiliated Registrar *__- _another ICANN accredited registrar that operates under a common controlling interest (2009 Registrar Accreditation Agreement, Section 1.20) - *Affiliate retail proxy service provider *-- entity operating under a common controlling interest of a registrar. - *Retail proxy service provider *- proxy service with little or no knowledge of the entity or individual requesting the service beyond their ability to pay and their agreement to the general terms and conditions. - _*Limited proxy service provider *_- proxy service for an entity or individual in which there is an ongoing business relationship bound by a contract that is specific to the relationship. --- end same text attached Kathy --