[ALAC-Announce] WHOIS Privacy and Proxy Survey Final Report Published

[At-Large Staff]

https://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-07dec12-en.htm
WHOIS Privacy and Proxy Survey Final Report Published
7 December 2012
In response to requests from the GNSO Council to gather data to inform
future WHOIS policy development activities, ICANN has commissioned a series
of studies to evaluate different aspects of WHOIS. The WHOIS Privacy and
Proxy Relay/Reveal Final Report, prepared by the Interisle Consulting Group
in Boston, MA, USA, is the first of these studies to be published by ICANN.
The Final Report takes into account public comment received on the Draft
Report (See: 
http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/whois-pp-survey-04jun12-en.htm
<https://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/whois-pp-survey-04jun12-en.htm
> ), and is available at
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/whois-pp-survey-final-report-22aug12-en.p
df 
<http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/whois-pp-survey-final-report-22aug12-en.
pdf>  [PDF, 1.23 MB]. The Appendices are available at
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/whois-pp-survey-final-report-appendices-2
2aug12-en.pdf 
<http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/whois-pp-survey-final-report-appendices-
22aug12-en.pdf>  [PDF, 2.11 MB].

This survey was organized to determine the feasibility of conducting a
future in-depth study to examine requests to relay communications to, and to
reveal the identity of, customers of proxy and privacy services used in
connection with gTLD domain names. The Interisle Consulting Group completed
the survey in August 2012. The findings suggest that it may be feasible to
tailor a future study to provide aggregated data and basic data collection
from privacy and proxy providers. Such a future survey is likely to be well
regarded by all stakeholders in the community, as it would provide
significantly useful data in understanding how privacy and proxy providers
manage relay and reveal requests.

The GNSO Council is expected to evaluate whether to recommend a new future
study based upon the findings of the WHOIS Privacy and Proxy Survey Final
Report.

For more information on the WHOIS Studies, please see:
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/studies
<http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/studies> .



Glen de Saint Géry 
GNSO Secretariat 
gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org