[NA-Discuss] Getting the WHOIS word out to users

[Danny Younger]

Ross,

ICANN Policy document ICP-3 describes the White Paper
as the "basic charter on which ICANN was founded and
continues to operate".

The White Paper laid out the following policy that
ICANN has adopted:  "Trademark holders and domain name
registrants and others should have access to
searchable databases of registered domain names that
provide information necessary to contact a domain name
registrant when a conflict arises between a trademark
holder and a domain name holder."

That policy was reaffirmed in the JPA's Affirmation of
Responsibiltities.  


--- Ross Rader <ross at tucows.com> wrote:

> Danny Younger wrote:
> > Re:  "Furthermore, ICANN has no policy to support
> the
> > status quo."
> > 
> > That's not how I see it.
> > 
> > The Joint Project Agreement's Affirmation of
> > Responsibilities signed by the ICANN Board states:
> 
> There is no existing policy that requires Whois
> service to be available. 
> There are some peripheral policies, but the core
> service is not governed 
> by any policy. It was simply instantiated in the
> contracts as a 
> placeholder while the community worked out what
> ought to happen.
> 
> If you can find a policy that says otherwise, I'm
> all ears.
> 
> -r
> 


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