[ga] Conspicuous Notice Issue

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

>From the Non-Commercial Constituency Mailing List: 

Date:         Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:24:49 -0400Reply-To:     Milton Mueller <Mueller@xxxxxxx>Sender:       Non-Commercial User Constituency <NCUC-DISCUSS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>From:         Milton Mueller <Mueller@xxxxxxx>Subject:      urgent alert for Council membersX-To:         KathrynKL@xxxxxxxxxxx:         nhklein@xxxxxxx, robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: text/plain; charset=US-ASCIIContent-Disposition: inline


The GNSO Council will be discussing the Whois task force recommendation1 at the teleconference on Thursday 18 August, 2005 at 12:00 UTC.Recommendation 1 calls for "conspicuous notice" to domain nameregistrants about how their Whois data will be used.This is an urgent notice to our Council representatives to join theregistrars and other supportive constituencies to DEFER a VOTE onRecommendation 1, until Whois is reformed to protect privacy.Whois Recommendation 1 was originally a good idea. However, MarcRotenberg of EPIC and others have alerted us to serious dangers. Undermany national laws, notification equals a waiver of one's privacyrights. We have confirmed those dangers through filings by the ISP andIPC constituencies.The conclusion of the NCUC WHOIS TF members is that there is no "goodfaith" in this process anymore.  NCUC, ALAC, Registrars and Registrieswanted to work on the privacy aspects of WHOIS while giving a bit ofnotice to registrants about what happens to their d!
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 today.  IPC,ISPs and BC, on the other hand, wanted to use notice to have registrantswaive all privacy rights, and then stop the privacy discussionaltogether!We (TF members) ask our Council members to do anything in their powerto stop a vote on Rec 1 -- send it back to the TF for study of thewaiver problem, or table it until after the rest of the WHOIS discussionunder our newterms of reference.**Please work with all your friends on the Council -- and especiallyreach out to the Registry constituency ** --- if you know them or evenif you don't.  They are the swing vote here.  Their TF membersunderstand our concerns.  Please lobby and work with them onalternatives to voting on Thursday.Otherwise, if it has to come to a vote, please vote NO loudly andclearly.Dr. Milton MuellerSyracuse University School of Information Studieshttp://www.digital-convergence.orghttp://www.internetgovernance.org


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