[council] WHOIS resolution at the GNSO Council - Wednesday 28 March 2007

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All,

Here is a copy of the WHOIS resolution passed by the Council today:

The GNSO Council resolves:

1)      To acknowledge the completion of the Whois TF work and note we
have received and discussed their report, and thank the task force for
their work

2)      To create a working group of affected stakeholders:

- including GNSO constituency, law enforcement and community
participants, 

- whose work is to be completed within 120 days

- that will work to examine the issues raised with respect to the policy
recommendations of the task force and make recommendations concerning
how those policies may be improved to address these issues, namely:

a.      define the roles, responsibilities, and requirements of the
operational point of contact, and what happens if they are not
fulfilled.
 
b.      how legitimate interests will access registration data no longer
published via Whois,

c.      whether a distinction should be made between the registration
contact information published based on the nature of the registered name
holder (for example, legal vs. natural persons) or its use of the domain
name.


Regards,
Bruce Tonkin