RE: [dow2tf] Questions to registrars/constituencies

[Steve Metalitz <metalitz@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jordyn.  For everyone's convenience I have pasted in Jordyn's posting
below the questions 1 and 2 to which he refers.

I am still not clear on two related points:

(1)  Will the first set of questions be sent to all registrars, or just to a
subset (e.g., top 20 market share)?

(2)  How will these questions be posed directly to resellers?  (We had
discussed asking the registrars to administer the questionnaire to a sample
of their re-sellers accounting for at least a specific percentage of
registrations -- but I don't think that we had reached any conclusion on
this.)  

Steve Metalitz    

-----Original Message-----
From: Jordyn A. Buchanan [mailto:jbuchanan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 12:10 PM
To: 2DOW2tf
Subject: [dow2tf] Questions to registrars/constituencies


Hello all:

In preparation for tomorrow's teleconference, I am sending out the 
following questions that we discussed on our last call.  Feel free to 
suggest revisions.  The goal on the call tomorrow is to finalize these 
questions, as well as others we may be sending out (such as to the 
GAC).

Questions for registrars
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1.	What mechanisms do you use to inform potential and existing
registrants of the following:

(a)	the purposes for which contact data is collected;
(b)	the intended recipients or categories of recipients of contact data;
(c)	which contact data are obligatory and which (if any) are voluntary;
(d)	how registrants may access and seek to rectify their contact data.  

Please provide applicable URLs. 

2.	What mechanisms do you use to obtain consent from registrants for
use of their contact data?  Please provide applicable URLs.  


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?

5) Do you provide registrants with any mechanisms to allow anonymous 
domain registrations, or to limit the amount of contact data made 
publicly available through Whois?

6) Describe any accommodations that you have made to comply with local 
laws pertaining to the collection or display of contact information.  
Please cite the specific laws.

[I think Thomas was going to add a question as well.]


Questions for other constituencies
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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?