WHOIS Task Force 1 Teleconference December 16 - Minutes

ATTENDEES:

GNSO Constituency representatives:
gTLD Registries constituency: - Jeff Neuman - Chair
gTLD Registries constituency - David Maher
Intellectual Property Interests Constituency - John Wolfe
Registrars Constituency - Paul Stahura
Commercial and Business Users constituency:- David Fares
Commercial and Business Users constituency:- Marilyn Cade
Non Commercial Users Constituency:- Milton Mueller

Liaisons:
At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) liaisons - Wendy Seltzer
GNSO Secretariat: Glen de Saint Géry

Absent:
Intellectual Property Interests Constituency - Jeremy Banks
Internet Service and Connectivity Providers constituency: - Antonio Harris
ICANN Staff Manager: Barbara Roseman

Jeff Neuman asked the task force participants whether there was any objection to a MP3 recording of the teleconference and subsequently publishing it in the minutes.
No objections raised from task force representatives.
Jeff Neuman reminded the task force representatives to send their statements of interest to the GNSO Secretariat. When complete, these would be available on the task force mailing list.

David Fares suggested sending a notice to the GNSO Council requesting an extension in time for the process. Jeff Neuman proposed to draft such a notice.
Jeff Neuman commented on Milestone 1
(1) collect the stated needs and the justification for those needs from non-marketing users of contact information (this could be extracted from the Montreal workshop and also by GNSO constituencies, and should also include accessibility requirements (e.g. based on W3C standards)
December 23, 2003.
Proposed date for the dissemination by ICANN of all WHOIS workshop materials related to specific issues and identification of non-marketing groups that use WHOIS data.

Jeff commented that all the needs and justifications should be collected and that it was for the Council to accept or reject the recommendations on what is justified.
A chart with 3 columns was proposed:

Identify needs, Justification as given by constituency, Evaluation judgment (would be left until all the needs had been collected.)

Groups to be contacted aside from law enforcement for non-marketing uses of data.
Consumer groups, which could weigh in for consumer use and needs, FTC workshop.
How to reach out to international organizations? WIPO, OECD, Interpol, were mentioned. In the IP group Thompson and Thompson, Snapnames, Name Intelligence were mentioned.
John Wolfe to send note to IP constituency to identify the groups and then send a note asking their for their opinion.
Non marketing and non commercial were distinguished apart.

1) December 23 - One week to brain storm the groups. John Wolfe for IP, Paul Stahura for registrars, Wendy Seltzer for academic groups and the Berkman center.
Early January have complied groups.
Draft language to send to the groups on needs and the justification for those needs. Keep in mind whether it is absolutely necessary to have WHOIS for getting the information. What is the specific justification for having information via WHOIS. Whether port 43 is used? Do groups offer port 43 to individual users?

2) January 5, 2004: First draft of Notice to non-marketing groups soliciting input on Task Force issues due to the Task Force

3) January 6, 2004: First draft of "needs and justifications" chart due (compiled from pre-existing data)

4) January 12, 2004: Send out Final Notice to non-marketing groups on "needs and justifications" for Whois data and for soliciting comments on "technical measures adopted for preventing data mining"

5) January 26, 2004: Due date for comments from "non-marketing groups" and "technical measures adopted for preventing data mining"
ICANN, Registrars, Registries to figure out what changes would be needed in contracts.

6) February 1, 2004: Constituency Statements due

7) February 9, 2004: Preliminary data due from ICANN, Registries and Registrars on "changes to agreements" to implement technical measures

8) March 1, 2004: Completion of a Final Report.

Individual Groups formed:
Each sub group should have a leader to do the coordination

Group 1 "Note going out for non-marketing uses"
David Fares
Milton Mueller
Paul Stahura
Barbara Roseman

January 5, 2004: Draft note

Group 2 "Workshop material: start chart of needs and justifications"
John Wolfe
Jeremy Banks
David Maher
Wendy Setltzer

January 6, 2004: brainstorm and start charts based on materials from workshops and ICANN. Come back to task force meeting with feedback to the group
January 12, 2004: have chart started to help frame questions

Jeff Neuman thanked everyone for their presence and participation and ended the call at 17:15 UTC.

Next call: Tuesday 23 December 16:00 UTC, 11:00 EST, 8:00 Los Angeles, 17:00 CET.