[At-Large] Fwd: FYI: Whois Funnel Request: Telnic application to change its Whois service obligations

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Dear Colleagues:

As requested I provide you with the below.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Maria Farrell" <maria.farrell at icann.org>
> Date: 11 May 2007 16:17:54 BDT
> To: <nick.ashton-hart at icann.org>
> Subject: FW: FYI: Whois Funnel Request: Telnic application to  
> change its Whois service obligations
>
>  Dear members of the At Large Advisory Committee,
>
> Please see below a notice I sent to the GNSO Council regarding  
> Whois that may be of interest to members of this  committee .
>
> All the best, Maria
>
> From: Maria Farrell [mailto:maria.farrell at icann.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 5:06 PM
> To: 'Council GNSO'
> Subject: FYI: Whois Funnel Request: Telnic application to change  
> its Whois service obligations
>
>  Dear Council members,
>
> Please be advised that ICANN has received an application for  
> evaluation of new registry services regarding Whois from Telnic,  
> the operator of the .tel registry which is expected to launch later  
> in 2007.
>
> On 27 April, 2007, ICANN Services staff received an application  
> from Telnic who requested an alteration to its contract in order to  
> comply with the UK Data Protection Act (1998), an implementation of  
> the EU Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC). Telnic has not  
> provided notification of an investigation, litigation, regulatory  
> proceeding or other compliance action that might affect its  
> compliance with its agreement with ICANN regarding the collection,  
> display or distribution of personally identifiable data via Whois.  
> It has carried out informal consultations with stakeholders and the  
> UK Information Commissioner.
>
> This evaluation process is completely separate from the Draft ICANN  
> Procedure for Handling Whois Conflicts with Privacy Law (http:// 
> gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/ 
> whois_national_laws_procedure.htm) The draft Procedure was  
> developed by the GNSO Council in November 2005 and adopted by the  
> ICANN Board in May 2006. The ICANN staff developed an  
> implementation draft of the procedure and invited public comments  
> (December 2006 – January 2007) on it. The procedure will be  
> finalised pending any input from the Government Advisory Committee.
>
>
> The Telnic request is at step 2.4, ‘Preliminary Determination’, of  
> the Registry Services Request process. (Process diagram here:  
> http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/workflow.html, process policy  
> here; http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/rsep.html) The process  
> has not identified significant security or stability issues or  
> competition issues that might bar the implementation of the new  
> registry service.
>
> The next step is that the service request will be posted for public  
> comments and sent to the ICANN Board for a decision on implementation.
>
> Registry Services Evaluation Process: http://www.icann.org/ 
> registries/rsep/
> Telnic Cover letter: http://www.icann.org/correspondence/price-to- 
> pritz-25apr07.pdf
> Telnic Registry Request Service: http://www.icann.org/registries/ 
> rsep/telnic-whois-proposal-27apr07.pdf
>
> Best regards, Maria Farrell
>
>
>

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