RE: [registrars] FW: ICM cross-registry WHOIS database

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

Hello All,

Note from our Registrar Accreditation Agreement, it states that:

"3.3.4 Registrar shall abide by any ICANN specification or policy
established as a Consensus Policy according to Section 4 that requires
registrars to cooperatively implement a distributed capability that
provides query-based Whois search functionality across all registrars.
If the Whois service implemented by registrars does not in a reasonable
time provide reasonably robust, reliable, and convenient access to
accurate and up-to-date data, the Registrar shall abide by any ICANN
specification or policy established as a Consensus Policy according to
Section 4 requiring Registrar, if reasonably determined by ICANN to be
necessary (considering such possibilities as remedial action by specific
registrars), to supply data from Registrar's database to facilitate the
development of a centralized Whois database for the purpose of providing
comprehensive Registrar Whois search capability."

Note also that this requires a consensus policy to be implemented.

The ICM agreement should reflect the same wording, or simply not have
the wording at all, as it is already in the registrar agreement. 

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin