[governance] Fwd: [gnso-dow123] Note from Paul Twomey regarding WHOIS clause in the Affirmation

[Danny Younger]

Veni,

Some of us have been dealing with WHOIS policy issues
for many years.  I participated in Paul Kane's
original WHOIS Committee back in 2001.  

Wouldn't you agree that it is not fair for ICANN to
expect volunteers to devote countless man-hours to
policy formulation on WHOIS while under a cloud of
doubt?  

As I and others see it, the USG view is rather clearly
enunciated.  During the three-year term of the Joint
Project Agreement "ICANN shall continue to enforce
existing policy relating to WHOIS".  

That's what the language states.

The Board has the opportunity under section IIIC of
the Agreement to introduce a clarifying amendment that
would put an end to your speculation regarding what
the USG wants.

If you believe that ICANN's WHOIS policy can indeed be
changed during the term of the JPA, is it too much to
ask the DOC and your fellow Board members jointly to
confirm this point?



--- Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:

> So - are we talking about this point...
> 
> 
> At 12:26 PM 05.10.2006 '?.'  -0700, Danny Younger
> wrote:
> >Re:  "I don't understand how are you so certain
> what
> >the USG wants?"
> >
> >UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTION TO THE
> >GOVERNMENTAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (GAC) AND THE
> >GENERIC NAMES SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION (GNSO)
> >ON WHOIS --
>
>http://www.icann.org/presentations/usg-mar-26jun06.pdf
> 
> ... or about this one...
> 
> 
> 5. TLD Management: ICANN shall maintain and build on
> processes to 
> ensure that competition, consumer interests, and
> Internet DNS 
> stability and security issues are identified and
> considered in TLD 
> management decisions, including the consideration
> and implementation 
> of new TLDs and the introduction of IDNs. ICANN will
> continue to 
> develop its policy development processes, and will
> further develop 
> processes for taking into account recommendations
> from ICANN's 
> advisory committees and supporting organizations and
> other relevant 
> expert advisory panels and organizations. ICANN
> shall continue to 
> enforce existing policy relating to WHOIS, such
> existing policy 
> requires that ICANN implement measures to maintain
> timely, 
> unrestricted and public access to accurate and
> complete WHOIS 
> information, including registrant, technical,
> billing and 
> administrative contact information. ICANN shall
> continue its efforts 
> to achieve stable agreements with country-code
> top-level domain 
> (ccTLD) operators.
> 
> ... because I don't see anything here stating that
> the ICANN policy 
> can not change. Existing policy is existing at every
> given moment. 
> Today it's one. Tomorrow it may be different.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Veni Markovski
> http://www.veni.com
> 
> check also my blog:
> http://blog.veni.com
> 
> 
>
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