[whois-sc] IPC top 5 from Issues Report list

[Steve Metalitz <metalitz@xxxxxxxx>]

The Intellectual Property Constituency provides its priorities among the
issues identified in the Issues Report, as follows (in numerical order, and
using the wording in the Issues Report):

5. Are the current requirements that registrars make disclosures to, and
obtain consent by, registrants concerning the uses of collected data
adequate and appropriate? (See RAA §§ 3.7.7.4 to 3.7.7.6.)

6. Are the procedures currently followed by registrars adequate to promote
accurate, complete, and up-to-date data, as required by both privacy and
accountability principles? (See RAA §§ 3.7.7.1, 3.7.7.2, and 3.7.8, as well
as the GNSO's Whois recommendations on accuracy adopted by the ICANN Board
on 27 March 2003.)  

10. Are the current means of query-based access appropriate? Should both
web-based access and port-43 access be required? (RAA § 3.3.1.)

12. What measures, if any, should registrars and registry operators be
permitted to take to limit data mining of Whois servers?

14. Should the current requirement that registrars provide bulk Whois access
for non-marketing uses be further limited or eliminated? (RAA § 3.3.6, as
well as the GNSO's Whois recommendations on accuracy adopted by the ICANN
Board on 27 March 2003.)

Three additional comments:

(1)	IPC believes that the improved compliance with the terms of the
current RAA (and other relevant agreements) is of critical importance.  We
recognize that this goal may not involve policy development and therefore
may fall outside the scope of this group's terms of reference.  

(2)	Among the other issues listed in the Issues Report, there was
considerable interest in some aspects of Issue #7 as well as those listed
above as our priorities.

(3)  While we support the exercise of identifying priorities among the
issues listed in the Issues Report as a good starting point, it is our
understanding that the Steering Group is not limited in its work to the
specific issues identified in the Issues Report, nor to the specific way
they are described there, in developing proposed terms of reference for any
task force(s) that may be deemed appropriate.    

Steve Metalitz, for the IPC