[NA-Discuss] [At-Large] GAC Recommendations for WHOIS Studies

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Robert and all,

  Well thank god you don't represent ALL canadians,
or the rest of the world, eh?  However for the most part
I agree, the WHOIS situation has been debated and discussed
to death and there is no change from already entrenched
and established positions.  The one area were I, and our
members agree with Danny is with Whois accuracy.  That is to
say that contact information, such as abuse. contact Email
addresses, and phone contact information for same is often
times not accurate and should be required to be so.  Google
and Wikipedia are two more well known violators of inaccuracy
and no admin. Email contact in the case of Google.  Of course
it appears that both Vint Cerf, and DOC/NTIA are seemingly 
unable or unwilling to insist that their Whois info. is
accurate and an abuse contact Email address is reachable
and avaliable.  This is indeed unfortunate and reprehensable
at a minimum.  As our members, myself very much included are
disgusted in Google's behavior in part as a result of their
inaccurate Whois and Domain name registration information,
we have discontinued some time ago now using Google or doing
any business with them as they have repeatedly demonstrated
a intent to be allow unchecked the proliferation of spam,
phishing, and the propagation of Child pornography via their
services with seeming impunity.


  Certainly this is the identical position of our
members in Canada at least, as well as our members in
the US and 78 other countries.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Guerra <lists at privaterra.info>
>Sent: Apr 28, 2008 7:19 PM
>To: At-Large Worldwide <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>Subject: Re: [At-Large] GAC Recommendations for WHOIS Studies
>
>For me - the issue has been studied to death. Any further studies are  
>a stalling tactic
>
>Either set a deadline, or get rid of it.
>
>regards
>
>Robert
>
>
>On 24-Apr-08, at 7:41 PM, Danny Younger wrote:
>
>> http://www.icann.org/correspondence/karlins-to-thrush-16apr08.pdf
>>
>> The GAC has put forward 15+ topics related to WHOIS
>> that they believe should be studied.  The GNSO WG that
>> is focused on the same topic will tender its own
>> recommendations on 22 May.  On the GNSO WG are three
>> at-large participants (myself, Beau Brendler, Wendy
>> Seltzer) that could benefit from your input.
>>
>> If you believe that certain studies are warranted,
>> please tell us and offer up your particular
>> recommendations.  If you believe that further studies
>> are nothing more than a stalling tactic being
>> exploited by certain constituencies to hamper privacy
>> initiatives and that no more studies are actually
>> warranted, feel free to tell us that as well.
>>
>> Whatever your views, we will be happy to convey them.
>>
>> If you would like to communicate your thoughts
>> directly to your GAC representative, contact details
>> are here:
>> http://gac.icann.org/web/contact/reps/index.shtml
>>
>> If you would like to formulate WHOIS policy, please
>> join the ALAC WHOIS WG -- signup details at http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/whois-wg_atlarge-lists.icann.org
>>
>>
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