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Re: [council] Call for volunteers - 'thick' Whois PDP Drafting Team
Dear Glen, BC volunteers are Susan Kawaguchi and Elisa Cooper, copied on this
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From: Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:06:24
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Subject: [council] Call for volunteers - 'thick' Whois PDP Drafting Team
Call for Volunteers for Drafting Team to develop Charter for 'thick' Whois PDP
WG
Introduction
At its meeting on 14 March 2012, the GNSO Council initiated a Policy
Development Process (PDP) on 'thick' Whois (see
http://gnso.icann.org/en/resolutions#20120314-1). Following a short delay, the
GNSO Council decided at its last meeting that a group of volunteers should now
be convened to draft the charter for the PDP Working Group, which is to be
approved by the GNSO Council.
Task of the Drafting Team
The Drafting Team will be tasked with developing a charter for the PDP Working
Group on 'thick' Whois'. The elements of the Charter should include, at a
minimum, the following elements as specified in the GNSO Working Group
Guidelines<http://gnso.icann.org/council/summary-gnso-wg-guidelines-06apr11-en.pdf>:
Working Group identification; Mission, Purpose and Deliverables; Formation,
Staffing and Organization, and; Rules of Engagement. The proposed charter will
be submitted to the GNSO Council for its consideration.
Volunteers
If you are interested to participate, please send an email to the GNSO
Secretariat
(gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>). You
will be required to complete a Statement of Interest in order to participate.
Background Information on the Issue
For the generic top-level domain (gTLD) registries, ICANN specifies Whois
service requirements through the registry agreements (ICANN 2009 Registry
Agreements) and the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). Registries satisfy
their Whois obligations using different services. The two common models are
often characterized as "thin" and "thick" Whois registries. This distinction is
based on how two distinct sets of data are managed. One set of data is
associated with the domain name, and a second set of data is associated with
the registrant of the domain name. A thin registry only stores and manages the
information associated with the domain name. This set includes data sufficient
to identify the sponsoring registrar, status of the registration, creation and
expiration dates for each registration, name server data, the last time the
record was updated in its Whois data store, and the URL for the registrar's
Whois service. With thin registries, Registrars manage the second set of data
associated with the registrant of the domain and provide it via their own Whois
services, as required by Section 3.3 of the RAA 3.3 for those domains they
sponsor. COM and NET are examples of thin registries. Thick registries maintain
and provide both sets of data (domain name and registrant) via Whois. INFO and
BIZ are examples of thick registries.
The GNSO Council requested an Issue Report on 'thick' Whois at its meeting on
22 September 2011 noting that the Issue Report should 'not only consider a
possible requirement of 'thick' WHOIS for all incumbent gTLDs in the context of
IRTP, but should also consider any other positive and/or negative effects that
are likely to occur outside of IRTP that would need to be taken into account
when deciding whether a requirement of 'thick' WHOIS for all incumbent gTLDs
would be desirable or not'.
The Final Issue Report was submitted by ICANN Staff on 2 February 2012 (see
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/final-report-thick-whois-02feb12-en.pdf) and
in this report a number of issues are outlined that will need further
consideration should a PDP proceed. The staff recommendation notes that staff
has confirmed that the proposed issues are within the scope of the ICANN policy
process and the GNSO and notes that it is reasonable from the staff's
perspective to expect that further investigation of 'thick' Whois for all gTLDs
would be beneficial to the community generally, as it would allow for an
informed decision by the GNSO Council as to whether 'thick' Whois for all gTLDs
should be required or not.
Recommended Reading for Volunteers
* Final Issue Report on 'Thick' Whois
(http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/final-report-thick-whois-02feb12-en.pdf)
* GNSO Working Group Guidelines, including charter guidelines
(http://gnso.icann.org/council/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-08apr11-en.pdf)
Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
http://gnso.icann.org
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