WHOIS Task Force 3 Teleconference December 10 - Minutes

ATTENDEES:

GNSO Constituency representatives:
Chair: Brian Darville - representing Intellectual Property Interests Constituency

Registrars Constituency - Ross Rader
Commercial and Business Users constituency: Marilyn Cade, Sarah Deutsch
Non Commercial Users Constituency: Frannie Wellings
Internet Service and Connectivity Providers constituency: Greg Ruth

Liaisons:
At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) liaisons: Vittorio Bertola

ICANN Staff Manager: Barbara Roseman
GNSO Secretariat: Glen de Saint Géry

Absent:
gTLD Registries constituency: - Ken Stubbs
Intellectual Property Interests Constituency - Terry Clark
Intellectual Property Interests Constituency - Kiyoshi Tsuru

MP3 recording:

The Chair, Brian Darville referred to the list of work items requested from ICANN staff in regards to the various WHOIS Task Forces:
1) Request for statements of interest in PDP for use as informational material in the publishing of any reports or policy proposals

Task force members were urged to send these statements to Barbara Roseman or the GNSO Secretariat

2) An opinion from General Counsel on the status of various participants in the Task Force, e.g., constituency representatives, liaisons, Nom-Comm appointees, outside experts

Awaiting General Counsel's opinion

3) Calendar for the Task Force with PDP mandated deadline

Staff Manager reported that it was being prepared


4) Assessment of data gathering process for Task Forces 2 and 3, and proposed timeframes for completing that work
Barbara Roseman suggested getting the timeframe from Jordyn Buchanan for task force 2 to work on.
A reasonable timeframe had to be submitted to Council and a request to Council for an extension of time on a certain area of the work. Assessment of data gathering would be dependent to a certain extent on some of the information from task force 1

Brian Darville referred to the
Tasks/Milestones from the task force 3 terms of reference
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1. - collect information on the current techniques that registrars use to verify that the data collected is correct. For example techniques to detect typing errors by registrants intending to provide correct information. Survey approaches used by cctlds to verify that the contact data collected is correct.
Barbara Roseman would contact ccTLDs launching group, it was believed that the ccTLDs had a way of verifying collected was correct.
Check what elements they found as important .

2. - collect publicly available information on the techniques used by other online service providers (to verify that data collected is correct) as well as information on the price of services offered by the online service provider.

Sarah Deutsch offered to do brainstorming and find out what was available.
Brian Darville, the task force chair pointed to a useful article: Is Whois Data Accuracy Enough?

Greg Ruth proposed revising the RFCs to see whether there were any best practice documents

First data collection in by January 15 - 20
Time frame proposed 3 weeks January 21 - 28

3. - create a best practices document for improving data verification based on the information collected that can be applied on a global basis Put on hold till after January 1

4. - determine whether any changes are required in the contracts to specify what data verification is necessary at time of collection to improve accuracy

ICANN Staff should look at this. An analysis should be made of what it would take to implement.

5. - determine what verification mechanisms can be used cost effectively to combat the deliberate provision of false information, and determine whether additional mechanisms are necessary to provide traceability of registrants, or provide for more timely responses for misuse of domain names associated with deliberately false information.

Could be compiled with point 3 There may be some information in the article below
Is Whois Data Accuracy Enough?
Find someone to look up information

Marilyn Cade reminded Task force members that the GNSO Council was responsible for revising the scope of work set out for the task force. All task force reports should include links to comments received during comment periods.

Follow up on milestones 1 and 2
Focus on gathering additional information

Brian Darville thanked everyone for their presence and participation and ended the call at 16:10 UTC.

Next call: Wednesday 17 December 15:00 UTC, 10:00 EST, 7:00 Los Angeles, 16:00 CET.