RE: [registrars] terms of reference for task force on data mining

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Elana and Tom,

> 
> 
> Bruce- the Council has outlined a good approach.  I want to 
> support, however, the comments of Tom and others raising 
> concerns that we don't approach Port 43 with a presumption of 
> leaving a large loop hole for mining of Port43 data.
> 
> In that regard, I believe that your first milestone/task of 
> collecting requirements from non-marketing users will need 
> more information than had been seen to date.  I hope much of 
> that can also be gathered at the Carthage workshop, but you 
> would probably need to also survey non-marketing users.  For 
> example, it is not at all clear which types of entities go to 
> Port 43, how regularly, and why they need bulk access, rather 
> than web-based.  It is also not clear what other less 
> intrusive avenues they may have to get the same data.
> 

Agreed.

It would be very useful at this stage to frame the questions that need
further research (particularly with regard to assigning research tasks
to ICANN staff).

I hope you will be able to raise these issues during the WHOIS workshop.

One of the topics of the workshop is to determine how the current data
elements are used.

I will be able to give a full update on the approach at the registrars
constituency meeting in Carthage.



Regards,
Bruce