[council] Whois service requirement

[Steve Sheng <steve.sheng@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Council Members,

As recently noted, the Whois service requirements report from July of 2010 has 
been tentatively added to the GNSO public meeting agenda. I have prepared the 
following note to provide some background for the discussion.

The service requirements report is the result of a Council resolution in May 
2009. It requested staff to compile a comprehensive set of requirements for 
WHOIS that includes: 1) known deficiencies in the current service and, 2) any 
possible requirements that may be needed to support various policy initiatives 
that have been suggested in the past. In compiling this report, staff has 
attempted to distil from current requirements and policy discussions the 
technical requirements that would be necessary to implement to correct 
deficiencies and implement various policy proposals.

The report is a technical inventory and does not intend to define or suggest 
the policies or operational rules that should apply. As requested by the GNSO 
in its resolution of May, 2009, staff shared the initial draft with the GNSO 
Council and with the other SOs (ccNSO, ASO) and ACs (SSAC, ALAC and GAC) for 
their input.

The Final Report is available at: 
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/whois-service-requirements-final-report-29jul10-en.pdf

Staff have conducted outreach webinars and workshops of this report, and the 
presentations can be found here: 
http://brussels38.icann.org/meetings/brussels2010/presentation-draft-final-inventory-whois-reqs-23jun10-en.pdf.

I am happy to answer questions on the list or in San Francisco.

warm regards,

--
Steve Sheng
Senior Technical Analyst

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