Hi James,

Tx also for your advice on the communication goals of the London meeting. I understand this is a lesson learned from the ATRT Team. Appreciate your sharing it with us.

 

Hopefully everything we do at this meeting will be issued at or shortly after our meeting, including: Scope of Work, working definitions, our action plan which should include an outreach plan to approach members of the ICANN community, and perhaps additional communities outside of ICANN. It is very important that the community be involved in our work – and support the direction we are heading.

 

Best and tx,

Kathy7

 

From: rt4-whois-bounces@icann.org [mailto:rt4-whois-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of James M. Bladel
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 9:21 PM
To: Liz Gasster
Cc: rt4-whois@icann.org
Subject: Re: [Rt4-whois] Draft agenda for London

 

Thanks, Liz.  These are excellent jumping-off points for our definitional work.

 

In addition, I would like to add another category of stakeholder, that of WHOIS "Producers."  This could be folded in to Section 3 as a new category, or added to our fact-finding efforts:

 

1.  Producers:

    (a)  Who are the Producers / Creators of WHOIS data?

    (b)  Who are the Maintainers / Managers of WHOIS data?

    (c)  What are their obligations  / rights / responsibilities?

    (d)  What are the different methods used to make data available (thick/centralized versus thin/distributed, etc.)

 

Also, Kathy and I were discussing the idea that we should prepare some Goals or Objectives in advance of our London (and subsequent) meetings, and then issue a brief report or statement at the conclusion of the meeting on our progress towards achieving them.  There are folks in the community watching our efforts very closely, and small efforts like these will go a long way towards building & preserving credibility for our final recommendations.  Just a thought.

 

Thanks--

 

J.

 

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Subject: Re: [Rt4-whois] Draft agenda for London
From: Liz Gasster <liz.gasster@icann.org>
Date: Tue, December 21, 2010 4:21 pm
To: Emily Taylor <emily.taylor@etlaw.co.uk>, 
"rt4-whois@icann.org" <rt4-whois@icann.org>

Hello Emily and all,

 

I’d like to comment on the topic of definitions, as I  have wrestled with them a bit myself in working on WHOIS over the years.  I think the idea of agreeing on a commonly understood lexicon is very useful, especially when discussing WHOIS, because what we typically may think of as generic terms can mean very different things to different people.  That said, I have not found many “agreed” definitions to be readily found or documented in areas that would be useful to this team.

 

I do have a thought about jump-starting the process -- Recently I had a similar need and found it useful to come up with “working definitions” that could be tweaked, massaged, or totally re-written by a larger group.  With that in mind, I’d like to toss out the attached draft for the group’s consideration, merely to start the process.  I used definitions that have been used in previous ICANN work where I found helpful references, and searched elsewhere for other terms.  My sources are admittedly “US-centric” as reflects my background, so other perspectives and useful sources would be very good to include.  They are not intended as “approved” ICANN definitions.

 

Please feel free to disregard this and start elsewhere, but I hope you find it useful.

 

Best regards, Liz

 

From: rt4-whois-bounces@icann.org [mailto:rt4-whois-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Emily Taylor
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:44 AM
To: rt4-whois@icann.org
Subject: [Rt4-whois] Draft agenda for London

 

Dear All

 

Thanks, Alice, for circulating the draft agenda for London.

 

I just want to emphasise that this is very much a draft, and I encourage you all to make comments or suggestions on the list and we can then foster a discussion about any points that arise, whether about substantive agenda items or logistics.

 

Kind regards

 

Emily

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