[dow2tf] Fwd: Data gathering suggestions

["Jordyn A. Buchanan" <jbuchanan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: "Jordyn Buchanan" <jbuchanan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: December 15, 2003 11:27:35 AM EST
> To: <dow2tf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Jordyn Buchanan" <jbuchanan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Data gathering suggestions
>
> Here's some sugested text for our data gathering.
>
> Questions for top ten registrars:
>
> 1) Please identify your top ten resellers, by volume.
>
> Questions for all registrars:
>
> 1) What mechanisms do you use to inform potential and existing
> registrants of the purpose for which contact data is collected, and how
> that data will be released to the public?  Please provide applicable
> URLs.
>
> 2) What mechanisms do you use to gain consent from registrants for the
> use of their data?
>
> 3) If you offer registrations through channels other than your website,
> how do the mechanisms used to inform registrants of the use of their
> contact data, and to gain consent for that usage, differ from those used
> on the website?
>
> 4) What requirements, if any, do you make of your resellers in terms of
> informing registrants of the use of their contact data, and gaining
> consent for that usage?
>
> --
>
> Questions for constituencies:
>
> 1) For each existing data field within the Whois, please provide
> feedback to the task force regarding the following:
> a) Use.  How do members of your constituency make use of the data?
> b) Necessity.  Is it necessary that this information be made available
> to members of your constituency?  If so, why?
> c) Concerns.  Describe any concenrs your constituency may have with
> making this information available.
>
> 2) If there are fields not presently available within Whois that would
> be of use to members of your constituency, please suggest what those
> fields may be.  For each suggestion, provide feedback regarding the
> following:
> a) Use.  How would members of your constituency make use of the data?
> b) Necessity.  Is it necessary that this information be made available
> to members of your constituency?  If so, why?
>
> 3) Please comment on any mechanisms that you are aware of to allow
> anonymous domain registrations, or to limit the amount of contact data
> made publicly available through Whois?