[ALAC] Call for Expertise for a drafting team to develop a Whois Service Requirements survey
Alan Greenberg
alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca
Tue May 24 14:32:40 UTC 2011
>From: Glen de Saint Géry <Glen at icann.org>
>Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 17:14:20 -0400
>Subject: [liaison6c] Call for Expertise for a
>drafting team to develop a Whois Service Requirements survey
>
>Dear All,
>
>http://gnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-19may11-en.htm
>
>Invitation for volunteers to form a Drafting
>Team to develop a survey to estimate the level
>of agreement that the conclusions and
>assumptions in the Inventory of Whois Service
>Requirements Report of 29 July 2010 have in the
>ICANN community. See:
><http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/whois-service-requirements-final-report-29jul10-en.pdf>http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/whois-service-requirements-final-report-29jul10-en.pdf.
>The goal of the Drafting Team would be to assist
>staff in developing the format, questions,
>response scale and scope of the survey.
>In May 2009 by the GNSO Council requested that
>staff prepare a compilation of potential future
>requirements for WHOIS service, based on current
>requirements and a review of previous GNSO WHOIS
>policy discussions. This resolution reflected
>increasing community concerns that the current
>WHOIS service is deficient in a number of ways,
>including data accuracy and reliability, as well
>as in other technical areas noted in recent SSAC
>reports, such as accessibility and readability
>of WHOIS contact information in an international
>environment. The report is a compendium of
>potential technical requirements and makes no
>policy recommendations. Some of the potential
>technical requirements included in the report
>are the following: a mechanism to find
>authoritative WHOIS servers; structured queries;
>a standardized set of query capabilities; a
>well-defined schema for replies; standardized
>error messages; improved quality of domain
>registration data; internationalization;
>security elements; thick vs. thin WHOIS; and a
>Registrar abuse point of contact. Staff
>published a first draft of the report 26 March
>2010, solicited input from SOs and ACs, and
>posted a draft final report reflecting SO and AC input on 31 May.
>Thus, on 19 May the GNSO Council asked ICANN
>staff to begin the process of seeking community
>volunteers Drafting Team for the purpose of developing a survey of views.
>This invitation is extended to all members of
>the ICANN community. We urge you to forward to
>this to all members of the community who may be
>interested in participating. Expertise in the
>technical aspects of gTLD Whois, and background
>on the history of gTLD Whois policy development,
>would be particularly useful to this group.
>Please contact the GNSO Council Secretariat at
><mailto:gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org>gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org
>by 01 June 2011 if you are interested in joining
>the Drafting Team. Please contact Liz Gasster
>at
><mailto:liz.gasster at icann.org>liz.gasster at icann.org
>if you have any questions about the report or the work of this group.
>
>Thank you.
>Kind regards,
>Glen
>
>Glen de Saint Géry
>GNSO Secretariat
>gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org
>http://gnso.icann.org
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