GNSO Council Invites Recommendations for Future Studies on WHOIS

📅 January 8, 2008 -

Public comments are invited until 15 February on recommendations for futurestudies on the WHOIS system.

Submit comments to: whois-comments-2008@icann.org
View comments at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/whois-comments-2008/

Background

At the 31 October meeting in Los Angeles, the Generic Names Supporting Organization(GNSO) Council voted to conduct several studies of the WHOIS system, concludingthat a comprehensive, objective and quantifiable understanding of key factualissues regarding the gTLD WHOIS system will benefit future GNSO policy developmentefforts. Before defining the details of these studies, the Council is solicitingsuggestions from the community for specific topics of study on WHOIS thatcommunity stakeholders recommend be conducted.

Possible areas of study might include a study of certain aspects of gTLDregistrants and registrations, a study of certain uses and misuses of WHOISdata, a study of the use of proxy registration services, including privacyservices, or a comparative study of gTLD and ccTLD WHOIS.

If you would like to offer suggestions about topics of study on WHOIS, pleasedo so by completing the online form available by clicking on the followinglink: http://forms.icann.org/cgi/study-suggestions.Please submit a separate online form for each study that you recommend shouldbe conducted and answer all questions with as much detail as possible. Pleaselimit your online answers to 1-2 paragraphs per question. Additional detailand any supporting materials may be emailed to: whois-comments-2008@icann.org.You are also encouraged to comment on proposed studies that have alreadybeen posted. To do so please reference the specific proposal you are commentingon. Lastly, you may also provide input via email, instead of posting onlinevia the form provided. To do so, please send email to whois-comments-2008@icann.org.

More information about policy activities related to WHOIS can be found at:http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/.

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