Re: [dow3tf] TF3 - Best Practices Recommendations

["Brian Darville" <BDARVILLE@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ross:

I am not sure I understand your point.  First of all, please feel free to submit other recommendations.

Second, Items 2, 4 and 13, plainly are within the scope of Task Force 3.  Item 10 might be, but I confess I am not sufficiently familiar with it and look forward to the briefing later this week.  I included it because it is referenced in one of the constituency statements (not the IPC's, incidentally).

Items 3, 4 and 5 are items I drafted based in part on the constituency statements and in part on the Bernie Turcotte presentation in Rome.

The remaining items are from various consitutency statements.  

As for your proposal about removing the IPC recommendations, that does not make any sense.  I am happy to include the registrar constituency recommendations, but it is hard to articulate them in concrete terms that are specific enough to guide future action.  Why don't you take those recommendations and make them more specific in a manner that makes clear who is going to do what and when they are going to do it and let's add them into the list for discussion on Wednesday.

Thanks.

Brian

>>> "Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@xxxxxxxxxx> 04/23/04 02:54PM >>>
On 4/23/2004 1:53 PM Brian Darville noted that:

> I am not going to be in a position to insert the citations between now and next week's call.  If someone else would like to take this task on, that would be very helpful.  Please volunteer to the list so that we will know who is handling that.

Statements 1, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 12 are verbatim reproductions of the IPC 
position statement. I am unable to find sources for any of the 
following statements. They do not occur in any of the constituency 
submissions and are not extracted from other policy documents or 
reports that I have been able to find. Perhaps you could provide us 
with the source document that you cut and pasted the excerpt from? It 
would be much easier to work with a Word document due to its redlining 
features. Alternatively, if any of the task force members recognize 
any of these statements as their own, it would be useful to identify 
this for the group.

...

2)	A Best Practices document geared toward improving data verification 
on a global basis...

3)	Automated verification processes should be employed for identifying 
suspect registrations...

4)	Manual verification processes should be employed to identify domain 
name registrations that, on...

5)	Where available automated address and contact databases should be 
consulted and used to check or...

9)	Procedures should be considered for facilitating updates of or 
correction to Whois data including...

10)	Once fully developed, ICANN should evaluate the pending IRIS 
protocol being developed by the...

13)	ICANN staff should undertake a review of the current registrar 
contractual terms and draft any...

Also note that items 2, 4, 10 & 13 contain statements that are 
inaccurate or out of scope for consideration by this task force.

> Of course, all of the Task Force members should feel free to submit additional concrete recommendations for improving data accuracy verification.

Yes, a wider view would be useful. Given this, I would like to 
respectfully request that we remove the IPC submission from 
consideration until the noted deficiencies have been corrected and 
instead use this slightly modified version of the Registrar 
Constituency submission as the basis for our discussions. I believe it 
provides a reasoned basis from which can explore the compromises 
necessary to move forward with a vote of the Task Force and achieve 
adoption by the GNSO Council.

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1.	ICANN should continue to develop its ongoing compliance plan to 
ensure that contracted parties are appropriately meeting their 
obligations under the various agreements.

Specific attention must be paid to;
a)	the resources assigned to managing this plan;
b)	the specific elements of compliance that the internet community is 
primarily concerned with;
c)	development and implementation of a graduated scale of sanctions 
that can be applied against those who are not in compliance with their 
obligations or otherwise infringing the contracted rights under these 
agreements;
d)	Measurement and reporting mechanisms that allow appropriate 
analysis of the effectiveness of this ongoing program with specific 
attention paid initially to existing compliance assistance mechanisms 
such as ICANN's online Whois data inaccuracy reporting tools ;
e)	Continued outreach to and education of affected stakeholders to 
ensure that existing requirements and obligations are understood and 
met and that new requirements are captured and appropriately dealt 
with. This effort should ensure that ICANN advisories related to this 
issue  are specifically brought to the attention of newly accredited 
Registrars and that resources be made available to the Registrar 
community to ensure that the impact and scope of these obligations are 
apparent and understood. Similar resources should be made available to 
new Registrants and brought to their attention via the registration 
agreement that all Registrants must agree to prior to the activation 
of their gTLD registration ;
f)	Ongoing development and promotion of gTLD Registry, Registrar and 
Registrant best practices that foster the accuracy of the Registrant 
data contained in the Whois database

2.	ICANN should not ratify any policy related to Whois data accuracy 
that alters the balance of rights and obligations found in current 
policy.

3.	Specific examination of Registrar data collection and protection 
practices be undertaken by the GNSO Council (or another appropriate 
body) in order that the GNSO community has sufficient and appropriate 
appreciation of the policy implications of the various data protection 
regulations in effect in the various jurisdictions that Registrars 
operate.
--

Regards,

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                        -rwr








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