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Re: [council] Draft Charter for new Whois Working Group
- To: Maria Farrell <maria.farrell@xxxxxxxxx>, "'Council GNSO'" <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [council] Draft Charter for new Whois Working Group
- From: Robin Gross <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:38:16 -0700
- In-reply-to: <B897B789-E93B-442D-8673-9F58127C727C@tucows.com>
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In considering this WG charter April 12, NCUC moves to amend it as follows:
Under section 4b,
Change the sentence "Determine how third parties may access
registration data that is no longer available for unrestricted public
query-based access for legitimate activities."
to...
Determine which third parties, under which conditions, may access
registration data that is no longer available for unrestricted public
query-based access."
Also, strike the 8 paragraphs beginning "The GAC policy
principles...."
Reason:
The opening sentence of 4b reads as if ANY third party will be given
access to the data for any activity. But this begs the policy question
that the WG must answer, which is WHICH third parties (e.g., just law
enforcement agencies, or others) and under WHAT CONDITIONS.
As for the second change, having discussed this with GAC members, the
objections of the EU to the language was resolved by stating that some
of the ACTIVITIES that Whois data was used for was legitimate, but this
did not necessarily mean that ACCESS TO THE PRIVATE DATA was also
legitimate. Also, the Whois task force has already determined that the
purpose of Whois does not include many of these activities, so there is
no obligation on ICANN to make the data available for those activities.
Thank you,
Robin
Ross Rader wrote:
Maria -
Many thanks for turning this around so quickly. The draft is
generally great. I'd like to suggest that the section entitled "work
plan" uses the relevant text of the resolution instead of the
language currently employed. In a couple of places, the work plan
outlines a much greater scope of work than that contemplated by the
resolutions, specifically;
4.a proposed expands the examination of the definition of the roles
to all contacts, whereas the resolution only sought to examine the
definition of the operational point of contact.
4.b proposed requests the WG to determine how third parties may
access unpublished data for legitimate activities, whereas the
resolution only seeks to describe how legitimate interests will
access unpublished data. The difference seems small, but the proposed
language requests the creation of a comprehensive proposal that
describes an access mechanism for a long list of "legitimate
activities" rather than a proposal that describes an access mechanism
for use by legitimate interests.
4.c proposed additionally requests the WG to determine how the
distinctions should be made whereas the Council resolution only
sought to discover if the distinctions in question were possible to
make.
In each of these cases, it might just make the most sense to rely on
the text of the original resolution as ratified by Council to ensure
that we don't lose clarity on our actual objectives.
Second, a question. Concerning the issue of defining agreement. When
it comes to understanding what constitutes "broad agreement", will
this be measured on the views shared by individuals or interest groups?
Finally, in order to ensure that we're all working from the same
foundation, it might make sense to specifically include the policy
recommendations of the task force in the document itself, either as a
summary, or an annex that we can easily refer to. The policy
recommendations that I am referring to are included in section 4 of
the report, as per the clarifications I made during our discuss at
the recent Council meeting.
Thanks again,
-ross
On 30-Mar-07, at 2:51 PM, Maria Farrell wrote:
Dear Council members,
Attached is the draft Charter that sets out the statement of work and
working methodologies of the Whois Working Group, created by
resolution of
the GNSO Council in Lisbon, on 28 March.
Please review it and note that it will be an agenda item for
discussion and
adoption at the next Council meeting on 12 April.
Also, please email this list if you wish to be on the Working Group,
and
feel free to to put any interested constituency members or outside
experts
in touch with me for further information.
All the best, Maria
<Whois Working Group Charter2.doc>
Ross Rader
Director, Retail Services
t. 416.538.5492
c. 416.828.8783
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