Re: [ga] FYI - Community Experiences with the InterNIC Whois Data Problem Reports System

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear secretariat and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
stakeholders/users,

  This part of the information being reported was expressly NOT desired
by the majority of stakeholders/users as far as that is known accurately:
3.3.1.7 The name, postal address, e-mail address, voice telephone number,
and (where available) fax number of the technical contact for the Registered
Name;

  Providing a registrant name and postal address violates their privacy rights
and makes them a specific target for fraud of various sorts unnecessarily.

  ICANN or the ICANN BoD and staff claim falsely that there was a
consensus regarding these provisions.  This is well documented in the
archives of this and other ICANN forums as well as non-ICANN related
forums.  And such a provision has nothing necessarily to do with the
accuracy of the registration of any Domain Name...

GNSO SECRETARIAT wrote:

> [To: ga[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org]
> [To: liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org; council[at]gnso.icann.org]
>
> FYI the following report has been published by ICANN.
>
> Community Experiences with the InterNIC Whois Data Problem Reports System
> http://www.icann.org/whois/wdprs-report-final-31mar04.htm
>
> Extract from the report:
>
> Introduction
> The following is a report summarizing ICANN's experience with the operation
> of the Whois Data Problem Report system at InterNIC.net
> <http://reports.internic.net/cgi/rpt_whois/rpt.cgi>. This report is being
> published pursuant to Section II.C.10.a of Amendment 6 to the ICANN/DOC
> Memorandum of Understanding, providing:
> ICANN shall publish a report no later than March 31, 2004, and annually
> thereafter, providing statistical and narrative information on community
> experiences with the InterNIC WHOIS Data Problem Reports system. The report
> shall include statistics on the number of WHOIS data inaccuracies reported
> to date, the number of unique domain names with reported inaccuracies, and
> registrar handling of the submitted reports. The narrative information shall
> include an evaluation of the impact of the WHOIS Data Problem Reports system
> on improved accuracy of WHOIS data.
> <http://www.icann.org/general/amend6-jpamou-17sep03.htm>
>
> Whois data for the generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) includes information
> about the registrant, administrative contact, technical contact, and
> nameservers associated with each domain name. This information is used for a
> variety of important purposes, including identifying and verifying online
> merchants, investigations by consumer protection and other law enforcement
> authorities, determining whether a domain name is available for
> registration, identifying the source of spam e-mail, enforcement of
> intellectual property rights, addressing cyber-attacks, and otherwise
> resolving technical network issues. Whois services have been available on
> the Internet since the early 1980s, and continue to be broadly used.
> According to an online survey of over 3000 participants (businesses,
> governments, ISPs, registrars, individuals, and non-commercial
> organizations) conducted in 2001 by the ICANN Domain Name Supporting
> Organization
> <http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/whoisTF/20020625.TFwhois-report.htm>,
> Internet users broadly consider accurate Whois data to be important and
> support measures to improve its accuracy.
>
> GNSO Secretariat

Regards,

--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
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