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The GNSO's WHOIS Task Force #2 is chartered with reviewing the current
ICANN whois policy regarding the collection, disclosure and transmittal
of data.
One of the milestones of this Task Force is to determine whether the
data which is collected and disclosed at present should be changed.
To be able to arrive at a informed decision we are asking all GNSO
Constituenies for guidence on their use of the current data fields.
You can find a short listing of these fields at the end of this
document or a more extensive list under:
"<http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/dow2tf/pdf00001.pdf>"
(Or new Link)(
Informations (including links and copies) to the following points are of
our particulare interest:
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?
Please also comment on the conditions under which the registrant's
anonymity is lifted when these services are used.
Whois Data Fields:
General Information
- Domain Status
- Domain Name ID
- Domain Name
- Registrar ID*
- Name of Registrar
- Name Server(s)
- Name Server ID*
- Creation Date
- Expiration Date
- Updated Date
- WHOIS Server*
- Referral URL
- Created by*
- Last Updated by*
- Last Transferred Date
- Last Transferred by**
Registrant
- ID
- Name
- Address
- E-Mail address
- Phone number
- Fax number
Technical Contact
- ID
- Name
- Address
- E-Mail address
- Phone number
- Fax number
Administrative Contact
- ID
- Name
- Address
- E-Mail address
- Phone number
- Fax number
Billing Contact
- ID
- Name
- Address
- E-Mail address
- Phone number
- Fax number
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Cover letter registrars
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The GNSO's WHOIS Task Force #2 is chartered with reviewing the current
ICANN whois policy regarding the collection, disclosure and transmittal
of data.
As Registrars are an integral part of the registration process it is very
important for the further work of the Task Force to get some more detailed
insight into current Registrar practices. To achieve this goal it was decided
not to contact the Registrar Constituency as a whole but to gather information
only from the Registrars accounting for the better part of the registrations.
It would be a great help to the Task Force if you could answer the following
questions in regard to your own and if possible a few representive Resellers
practises.
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.
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 any mechanisms for anonymous domain registrations?
If so, under what conditions, if any, is the registrant's
anonymity lifted, or the anonymous registration canceled?
6. Do you provide any mechanisms to limit the amount of contact data
made publicly available through WHOIS? If so, under what
conditions is access -- if any -- to those data granted which are
collected, but not made publicly available through WHOIS?
7. 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.
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Am 25.01.2004 schrieb Barbara Roseman:
> Thomas,
>
> I can't open these files. Sorry to leave it so late to reply.
>
> -Barb
>
> At 03:19 PM 1/22/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> >Barbara,
> >
> >in light of your herculean task to manage four taskforces at the same
> >time I drafted two cover letters which might be (or not;)) a help for
> >you in designing the final versions.
> >
> >If you have any questions regarding the documents feel free to contact
> >me any time.
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >tom
> >
> >--
> >
> >Thomas Keller
> >
> >Domain Services
> >Schlund + Partner AG
> >Brauerstrasse 48 Tel. +49-721-91374-534
> >76135 Karlsruhe, Germany Fax +49-721-91374-215
> >http://www.schlund.de tom@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
>
>
>
Gruss,
tom
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