[council] New RFP on proposed Privacy - Proxy "Abuse" Study released today by ICANN

[Liz Gasster <liz.gasster@xxxxxxxxx>]

All,


Please note that ICANN today released an RFP to solicit costs and feasibility 
from independent researchers to conduct a WHOIS-related Privacy and Proxy Abuse 
Study which would methodically analyze a representative sample of gTLD domains 
associated with a variety of illegal/harmful Internet activities. By measuring 
how often these alleged and confirmed "bad actors" use Privacy/Proxy 
registrations, compared to the overall frequency of Privacy/Proxy 
registrations, this study would attempt to prove or disprove the following 
hypothesis:



A significant percentage of the domain names used to conduct illegal or harmful 
Internet activities are registered via Privacy or Proxy services to obscure the 
perpetrator's identity.

Please see the following link for details:  
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-18may10-en.htm

Responses are due by 20 July 2010, and I will be analyzing them and providing a 
report to the Council shortly thereafter.  Please feel free to contact me if 
you have any questions.

Best regards, Liz