RE: [council] FW: Letter from the Registries Stakeholder Group

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very glad you will be on the group Bruce.  Thanks for volunteering.

Chuck

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-
> council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 12:32 AM
> To: Council GNSO
> Subject: RE: [council] FW: Letter from the Registries Stakeholder
Group
> 
> 
> Hello Chuck,
> 
> Just a quite response that the creation of the Data and Consumer
> Protection Working Group is separate from the issues of WHOIS.
> 
> The Data and Consumer Protection Working group has only met informally
> over breakfast so far, and from my perspective the purpose is to
> identify a set of issues relating to registry data for further
> consideration by the community - rather than to "create" any policies.
> WHOIS wasn't discussed.
> 
> With respect to the text: "Searchable Whois: Refer to the Board Data
> Consumer Protection Working Group to study issues and provide
> information to the Board relating to access and privacy to develop
> recommendations for possible inclusion in the forthcoming version of
> the
> applicant guidebook."   The wording could be better.  The Board is
> asking the newly formed group to study the issues, but I am not yet
> clear what recommendations could emerge.  Your letter is timely in
this
> regard.
> 
> I agreed to be a member of the working group - partly to ensure that
it
> doesn't stray too far from identifying issues for further work (e.g
> creating an issues report with appropriate facts for discussion in the
> community), rather than creating policy on the fly at the Board level
> 
> Regards,
> Bruce Tonkin
>