[council] ICANN is Seeking Independent Researchers to Respond to Request for Proposal on WHOIS Privacy and Proxy Abuse Study

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-18may10-en.htm
ICANN is Seeking Independent Researchers to Respond to Request for Proposal on 
WHOIS Privacy and Proxy Abuse Study

18 May 2010

The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) is responsible for developing 
and recommending to the ICANN Board substantive policies relating to gTLDs. The 
GNSO Council is now exploring several extensive studies of WHOIS and has asked 
ICANN to estimate the cost and feasibility of conducting several studies 
proposed by members of the ICANN community and ICANN's Government Advisory 
Committee. This particular area of study focuses on the extent to which domain 
names used to conduct illegal or harmful Internet activities are registered via 
privacy or proxy services to obscure the perpetrator's identity. ICANN is 
seeking to engage independent research organizations to undertake this study. 
The WHOIS Privacy and Proxy Abuse Study Cover Letter [PDF, 99 KB] illustrates 
the scope of work and the criteria for selection. This Cover Letter should be 
read in conjunction with the Terms of Reference for the WHOIS Privacy and Proxy 
Abuse Studies RFP [PDF, 321 KB]. Read together, these two documents provide the 
materials necessary to respond to this Request for Proposals ("RFP") for the 
WHOIS Privacy and Proxy Abuse Studies.

More information about WHOIS may be found at: 
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/

By 20 July 2010, interested applicants should submit proposals by email to 
rfpwhois@xxxxxxxxx to the attention of Liz Gasster, Senior Policy Counselor, 
ICANN Policy Department. A confirmation email will be sent for each proposal 
received.